CAVI Lemma: FR. OF LARGE UNGLAZED STORAGE AMPHORA. FROM ATHENS. UNATTRIBUTED. SECOND
QUARTER FIFTH (LANG). 490-450 (CONTEXT). CLOSE TO 450 (LETTER FORMS).
CAVI Subject: UNDECORATED.
CAVI Inscriptions: ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE WALL, WRITTEN ON THE SHERD, GR.: Ευμελις / ηκ[ε] ος
ταχος. / Αρκεσιμος. ABOVE THE UPSILON OF LINE ONE IS A GAMMA; BELOW THE KAPPA OF
THE LAST LINE, AN EPSILON; BELOW, IN THE FIELD (ACCORDING TO PL. 2) A CHI, AND A
RHO PLUS A DIAGONAL LINE (IOTA?).
CAVI Comments: FOUND WITH P 15,209, Q.V. - LANG'S READING: "EUMELIS, COME AS QUICKLY AS YOU
CAN. ARKESIMOS." LANG ALSO SAYS THAT THE ος ταχος WAS CROWDED IN AS AN
AFTERTHOUGHT. THE FEMININE EUMELIS IS NOT KNOWN; ARKESIMOS IS FOUND IN ERETRIA
(CF. BECHTEL (1917)). - THE PROBLEM IS THAT THE ANCIENTS DO NOT SIGN LETTERS ON
THE BOTTOM. - FOR ηκε, V.&S. COMPARE AR., PEACE 275: ηκε νυν ταχυ. - THE
ALPHABET IS ATTIC EXCEPT FOR ETA, BUT THAT MAY POSSIBLY BE SYLLABIC Hε [[H(ε)]]
FOR HE. OR MIXED ALPHABET? - THE GR. MAY BE AMATORY, CF. P 15,209.
CAVI Number: 0496
AVI Bibliography: VANDERPOOL AND STAMIRES MS. — LANG (1976), B 7, PL. 2 (DR.). — ATTSCR (1990),
NO. 729.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
