CAVI Lemma: BG skyphos. From Athens (probably). Unattributed. Last quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: No figured decoration.
CAVI Inscriptions: The inscription in three circles around the bottom of the pot: Κηφισοφῶντος ἡ
κύλιξ·· ἐὰν δέ τις κατάξι, δραχμὴν αποτεισε, δῶρον ὂν παρὰ Ξενύ(λ)[ο]υ.
CAVI Comments: Once in Athens, Fauvel's house. κατάξι is Böckh's emendation of κατάξει.
Leake has κατάξηι, but wrongly νωχον for δῶρον. For ἀποτεισε (ε for ει), see
Threatte (1980), 300/10. For the last word, Leake has Ξευχ without the final
upsilon; EV accepts Böckh's Ξενύλ[ο]υ, but should this not have double lambda?
LGPN ii lists Ξενυλος (from this vase) with one lambda as distinct from
Ξενυλλος. E.V. gives four parallels for kylix = skyphos: see Oxford 1956.311;
skyphos base from Kea, Hesp. 33 (1964) 333-334. Two other skyphoi are not listed
as Attic (thought they may be): Zürich inv. 2531, and one found at the Cimmerian
Bosporus (see EV, p. 189). Ionic alphabet.
CAVI Number: 4841
AVI Bibliography: Leake's ms. notes in Cambridge. — CIG 1 (1828), 545. — Ussing (1844), 8 and
1412. — Jahn (1854), p.xcviii. — Rolfe (1891), 96-97. — Vanderpool (1967),
187-89, pl. 55, top. — D. Williams (1996), 231 (mention, for the price).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
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