CAVI Lemma: WG LEKYTHOS. FROM ERETRIA. ACHILLES PAINTER. SECOND QUARTER FIFTH. CA. 460.
460/55-450 (OAKLEY).
CAVI Subject: MISTRESS AND MAID: WOMAN SEATED TO RIGHT ON A CHAIR HOLDS OUT AN ALABASTRON;
ABOVE HER, AT THE TOP, HUNG UP, AN OINOCHOE AND ANOTHER OBJECT; WOMAN TO LEFT,
HOLDING A MIRROR, BEHIND HER, AT TOP, A SASH HUNG UP.
CAVI Inscriptions: BETWEEN THE WOMEN, AT TOP, HORIZONTAL THREE-LINER; THE FIRST TWO LINES ARE
STOICH. AND LEFT-ALIGNED, BUT THE THIRD LINE IS IRREGULAR, AT SOME DISTANCE AND
STARTING TO LEFT OF THE FIRST LETTERS OF THE PRECEDING LINES: Δρομιππος καλος
Δρομοκλειδο{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} THE THIRD LINE IS AT A DISTANCE FROM THE SECOND; THE LETTERS ΙΔ ARE
PLACED TOGETHER UNDER THE Ο OF LINE 1. {2} BUT OAKLEY PRINTS THREE-STROKE SIGMA
IN καλος, WHICH HE ALSO MENTIONS ON P. 11; I THINK, HOWEVER, THAT IT IS A SIGMA
S 14 OR PERHAPS S 11, WHICH ARE SIMPLIFICATIONS OF FOUR-STOKE SIGMA (SEE THE
CHART IN ATTSCR).
CAVI Comments: SECOND WHITE USED. IONIC ALPHABET.
CAVI Number: 0892
AVI Bibliography: K. RHOMAIOS, CVA ATHENS 1, GREECE 1 (1930), III J, PL. 2,7. — ARV[2] (1963),
996/130 (BIBL.). — OAKLEY (1997), 11, 138/180, PL. FIGS. 5A AND 6A (PROFILE),
PL. 98C-D (INSCRIPTIONS DISTORTED).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
