CAVI Lemma: RF kantharos. From Vulci. Nikosthenes Painter. Last quarter sixth. 520-510.
CAVI Subject: A: chariot, driver, and warrior. B: similar. Shield device: rear end of a
horse.
CAVI Inscriptions: B: around the shield device: σπ(ε)ον{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} CVA, text; the epsilon reversed. BM Cat. iii, 142 gives: N Ο Σ Ε.(Π) in a
circle; sigma three-stroke, pi sideways. Both suggest Σπεων(?), but it is
clearly nonsense.
CAVI Number: 4509
AVI Bibliography: Genick–Furtwängler (1883), pl. 26,1. — H.B. Walters, CVA London 4, Great
Britain 5 (1929), III I c, pl. 33,1a-d. — CB (1931–63), iii, text. — ARV[2]
(1963), 127/28.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)