CAVI Lemma: BF/WG OINOCHOE. UNATTRIBUTED. CHARINOS, POTTER. LATE SIXTH.
CAVI Subject: GRAPE VINE IN SILHOUETTE STYLE, ALL AROUND.
CAVI Inscriptions: UNDER THE VINE, ALL AROUND, IN TWO GROUPS: Χαρινος : εποιεσ[εν], UPSIDE DOWN.
Χσενοδο[κ]ε [----](.)κα.. καλε.
CAVI Comments: CF. Ξενοδοκος, PA 11,192. MY READING IS FROM A PHOTOGRAPH. BEAZLEY'S BEST
READING IS IN ABV: FOR THE SIGNATURE, NO TRACE AFTER THE SECOND SIGMA, BUT THE
SURFACE IS NOT PERFECTLY PRESERVED. FOR THE SECOND INSCRIPTION ABV HAS:
Χσενοδο[κ]ε 3-4 (.)(.) παι̣υ̣ καλε [..]. THIS IS BETTER THAN THE TEXT IN JHS 49,
44, N. 30, AS CORRECTED ON P. 311. WALTERS RESTORES: Χσενοδο[κ]ε [μοι(?) δοκε]ι
παις καλε, BUT THE INSCRIPTION IS SURELY MISWRITTEN. COHEN: THE LETTERING IS
CHARINOS', NOTE THE ANGULAR RHO. THE 2-DOT PUNCTUATION IS OLD-FASHIONED: THIS IS
THE EARLIEST SIGNATURE OF CHARINOS.
CAVI Number: 4378
AVI Bibliography: H.B. WALTERS IN BM CAT. B (1893), 288. — HOPPIN (1924), 69 (WRONGLY SAYS SIG.
IS INCISED). — BEAZLEY (1929), 44, N. 30, AND P. 311. — ABV (1956), 423, 697. —
ARV[2] (1963), 1532. — PARA. (1971), 182. — ADD.[2] (1989), 109. — ATTSCR
(1990), NO. 437, FIGS. 100-101. — COHEN (1991), 79-80 (NOT ILL.). — CLARK
(1992), 65-66.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)