CAVI Lemma: BF OLPE (OINOCHOE). FROM NOLA. UNATTRIBUTED{1}. LAST QUARTER SIXTH. CA. 515
(FOURNIER-CHRISTOL).
CAVI Subject: A GIRL APPROACHES A FOUNTAIN, WHERE A HYDRIA IS BEING FILLED (POTTIER:
POLYXENA); BRANCHES.
CAVI Inscriptions: TO LEFT OF THE LION HEAD, NOT FACING IT: δεχε{2}. TO RIGHT OF THE GIRL'S
CHEST, NOT FACING HER: τεδε, RETR. ABOVE, AND A BIT TO LEFT OF, THE HYDRIA:
πρεχε, RETR.{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} OUTSKIRTS OF LEAGROS GROUP (VILLARD). BEAZLEY IS SAID TO COMPARE: VATICAN
G 47; WüRZBURG 342; OXFORD 225; WüRZBURG 345. {2} THIS COULD BE READ RETR. {3}
OR, PERHAPS BETTER: πδεχε.
CAVI Comments: = N 3387. F.-C. READS: δέχε, τέ[ν]δε μάεο: `TAKE - THIS - FILL' (NO SOURCE
FOR THIS IS GIVEN). CLEARLY LEAGRAN NONSENSE; BUT COULD THEY BE MOCK
INSCRIPTIONS, RECALLING δεχου, τε[ν]δε AND παρεχε(?). LARGE CLEAR LETTERS.
CAVI Number: 6368
AVI Bibliography: GERHARD (1840–58), PL. 5. — KRETSCHMER (1894), 89. — POTTIER (1897–1922),
III, 805. — FOURNIER-CHRISTOL (1990), 89F./24, PLS. 15 [[QUITE CL.]] AND 18
(MUCH OLD BIBL.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
