CAVI Lemma: RF cup. From Orvieto. Antiphon Painter. First quarter fifth. Ca. 480
(Beazley, CB).
CAVI Subject: Int.: she-ass(1) with a burden, to left. Ext.: plain.
CAVI Inscriptions: Int.: starting to left of the donkey's right foot, curving upward along the
margin and ending at about 2 o'clock: Nικοστ^ρ̣ατο[ς] καλος{2}. At the top of
the exergue starting at left, in brown: Λαχες ^ καλος, the second word slightly
separated. {3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Beazley says a donkey, not a mule. {2} The donkey's ears intervene. CB,
text, gives the second sigma as extant, but the ph. does not show it. The rho is
damaged but probably rho 5. The omicrons are peculiar. {3} The words slightly,
but distinctly, separated. The writing is much smaller than the Nikostratos
inscription and seems different: note lambda 2 and S 4; omicron S 1. But alpha
9, kappa 6 angular and sigma 1 somewhat rounded are similar (these shapes from
the chart in AttScr.
CAVI Comments: The reading of the Nikostratos inscription is inaccurate both in CB and
ARV[2]. For the pairing of a N. and a L., generals in 427, see Hartwig and CB.
CB remarks that Hartwig had noted that a Nikostratos and a Laches were generals
in 427; Beazley says they are not our pair but may have been πατρικοι φιλοι.
Lambda Attic and `Argive'.
CAVI Number: 2755
AVI Bibliography: Hartwig (1893), 563, pl. 63,1. — CB (1931–63), iii, 42/144, pl. 81,4 (ph.).
(bibl.). — ARV[2] (1963), 337, 1646. — Para. (1971), 361. — AttScr (1990), no.
1031.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
