CAVI Lemma: WG LEKYTHOS. FROM TANAGRA. UNATTRIBUTED. SECOND QUARTER FIFTH.
CAVI Subject: NIKE FLYING OVER AN ALTAR, HOLDING A BASKET OF OFFERINGS.
CAVI Inscriptions: Με[...](τ)ος καλ[ο]ς. - THE INSCRIPTION IS ABOVE THE ALTAR AND IN FRONT OF
NIKE'S HEAD. A HORIZONTAL TWO-LINER. [THERE IS AN INDISTINCT LETTER BEFORE THE
TAU (PI)].
CAVI Comments: BEAZLEY SAYS THAT Με[γισ]τος HAS BEEN SUGGESTED; Με[λιτ]τος IS ALSO POSSIBLE,
BUT THE SIXTH LETTER MAY BE PI NOT TAU. -ACTUALLY, SAVIGNONI SUGGESTS:
Με[γισ]τος καλος, OR Με[νιππ]ος καλος, OR Με[λανω]πος καλος. BEAZLEY MENTIONS
ONLY THE FIRST OF THESE SUGGESTIONS AND ADDS ONE OF HIS OWN.
CAVI Number: 1914
AVI Bibliography: SAVIGNONI (1898), 404-408, PL. 5,2 (DR. BY WINTER). — ARV[2] (1963), 1601.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
