CAVI Lemma: BF/WG lekythos. From Greece. Circle of Diosphos Painter (Freyer-Schauenburg).
First quarter fifth. 490-470 (Freyer-Schauenburg).
CAVI Subject: Heracles and Acheloos; at left, Athena; in front of Acheloos, Oineus; at
right, Deianeira.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: four inscriptions: between Athena and Heracles, facing him:
ιλχυχυχ, retr. Between the legs of Heracles and Acheloos: ιλχιυ. Above Acheloos,
close to Oineus: ιι(σ)υχιυ. Between Deianeira's lower legs and Acheloos' rear,
facing her: ιυχιυ.
CAVI Comments: An inscription for each figure? The lettering is neater than what I know of
the Diosphos Painter. Read as in the Attic alphabet. Upsilons and lambdas are
indistinguishable.
CAVI Number: 4089
AVI Bibliography: Isler (1970), 20, 101, 107, 137/80. — LIMC i (1981), 27, Acheloos 243. — NNN
(1987), Westermann's Museum [[Oct.: Stiftung Pommern, Kiel]]: 38. — B.
Freyer-Schauenburg, CVA Kiel 1, Germany 55 (1988), pl. 18,1-3; p. 44, facs. of
inscriptions.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
