CAVI Lemma: BF pyxis. Related to Sakonides{1}. Third quarter sixth. 550-530.
CAVI Subject: a horseman and a warrior setting out; arming; a horseman and youths.
CAVI Inscriptions: Numerous nonsense inscriptions in small letters: σ[κο v. εσ. γχο(ν)ιχομινοι.
Vertical: οσιγειχ. εουιο. ειχεσ. χογει. And many more. Some letters are kion.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} probably by the same hand as the signed band cup, Tarentum, ABV 171,
bottom (ABV).
CAVI Comments: This vase belongs to a group of vases with nonsense inscriptions, not all by
the same hand; but the Sakonidean head cups are also not written by the same
hand (see AttScr). The nu is reversed.