Publication Record: Girard, T., L'oblique dans le monde grec (Oxford, 2015): 140, FIG.133 (PARTS OF BD) Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 254.6 Oakley, J., The Greek Vase, Art of the Story Teller (London, 2013): 21, FIG.11A (COLOUR OF PART)
CAVI Lemma: BF LEKYTHOS. ATHENA PAINTER. FIRST QUARTER FIFTH.
CAVI Subject: ACHILLES AND AJAX PLAYING A BOARD GAME, WITH ATHENA.
CAVI Inscriptions: NONSENSE: TO ATHENA'S RIGHT: οσδ^οσ(δ)σ{1}. TO ATHENA'S LEFT: σδεπ(δ)οπσ{2}.
TO RIGHT OF THE LEFT HERO: οσεδο^σε. TO LEFT OF THE RIGHT HERO: οσεδο^σε{4}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} ATHENA'S HAND INTERVENES; THE SIXTH LETTER COULD ALSO BE A TRIANGULA RHO.
{2} SLIGHTLY DIFFERENTLY IN WALTERS' DR.: Hσ AT END (I DID NOT SEE THE FINAL
SIGMA); THE FIFTH LETTER PERHAPS A TRIANGULAR RHO. {3} LANCES INTERVENE. {4} A
LANCE INTERVENES.
CAVI Comments: THE EXACT REPETITION OF A NONSENSE `WORD' IS UNUSUAL.
CAVI Number: 4339
AVI Bibliography: PHOTO. — WELCKER (1851), PL. 1. — H.B. WALTERS IN BM CAT. B (1893), 254; P.
27, FIG. 35 (DR.) (BIBL.). — HASPELS (1936), [[254/]] ATHENA PAINTER NO. 6.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
