Last Recorded Collection: San Francisco (CA), M.H. de Young Mememorial Museum: 701
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 345.2 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: SAN FRANCISCO, M. H. DE YOUNG MEMORIAL MUSEUM AND CALIFORNIA PALACE OF THE LEGION OF HONOR, 32, PLS.(471,490) 11.2A-C,30.1 View Whole CVA Plates
CAVI Collection: SAN FRANCISCO, M.H. DE YOUNG MEMORIAL MUSEUM 701.
CAVI Lemma: BF LEKYTHOS. PERIZOMA GROUP{1}. LAST QUARTER SIXTH. 510-500.
CAVI Subject: RACE OF TWO CHARIOTS.
CAVI Inscriptions: UNDER THE HORSES' BELLIES OF THE LEADING TEAM: ελϝοσαι.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} CONNECTED WITH THE MICHIGAN PAINTER (ABV).
CAVI Comments: SMITH THINKS THE INSCRIPTION IS NOT QUITE PURE NONSENSE; HE SUGGESTS THAT
WITHOUT THE DIGAMMA IT IS ἐλῶσαι, INTRANSITIVE [FROM ἐλάω], PRESENT RATHER THAN
FUTURE PARTICIPLE, AND COMPARES OTHER LEAGRAN `NONSENSE' INSCRIPTIONS. BUT IT IS
CLEARLY JUST MEANINGLESS. THREATTE (1980) ALSO RAISES THE POSSIBILITY OF
READING.
CAVI Number: 7454
AVI Bibliography: H.R.W. SMITH, CVA SAN FRANCISCO 1, USA 10 (1943), PLS. 11,2 AND 30,1. — ABV
(1956), 345/2. — THREATTE (1980), 23-24. — THREATTE (1980), 23-24. — ATTSCR
(1990), NO. 957.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
