CAVI Lemma: Lekythos in Six' technique. Diosphos Painter. Early fifth.
CAVI Subject: Iris running with a kerykeion in her right hand and tablets in the
outstretched left (she is bringing a letter to someone).
CAVI Inscriptions: To right of her face, diagonally upward, in white on BG: υυυυυ{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} as five English v's; some disjointed.
CAVI Comments: Iris may be thought of as speaking while delivering the letter (transmitting
the message both orally and in writing?). The vase is important for questions of
writing and literacy.
CAVI Number: 6702
AVI Bibliography: Photo. — Six (1888), ...., no. xvii bis. — Haspels (1936), 97, 106, 111,
235/76, pl. 38,4 (shows inscription).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)