CAVI Lemma: RF cup. From Orvieto. Cage Painter{1}. First quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: Int.: boy, seated, opening a bird cage on his lap; above, a stick with a
cross. Ext.: conversations: A: youth leaning on his stick; sandals hung up;
youth seated; by him, a bag and a cross; a male, fragmentary, holding out a
writing tablet with the string untied; tablets hung up. B: a cross on the wall;
youth leaning on his stick and holding out an open writing tablet; youth with a
stick seated on a stool; by him, a satchel (tablets tied up with the stylus
stuck in); the right-hand figure is missing.
CAVI Inscriptions: Int.: to left and above the boy: [hο π]αι[ς] καλος. A: [hο π]αις κα[λ]ος. B:
(h)ο πα[ι]ς κα[λος]{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} related to the Antiphon Group. {2} so Williams; Walters gives: α οπα.
σκα, with an alpha that makes little sense.
CAVI Comments: Sambon, Hoppin and Walters attributed the cup to Douris. For the
(unexplained) crosses see Williams 30.
CAVI Number: 4713
AVI Bibliography: Walters (1921), 125/4, fig. 6. — ARV[2] (1963), 348/2 (bibl.), 1647. —
Add.[2] (1989), 220 (bibl.). — D. Williams, CVA London 9, Great Britain 17
(1993), 29/16, pls. 20-21, fig. 6,c (profile).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
