CAVI Lemma: FRS. OF BF NIKOSTHENIC PYXIS. FROM PHOCAEA (ESKI-FOçA), THE SETTLEMENT.
ARCHIPPE GROUP (TUNA-NöRLING). 540-530 (TUNA-NöRLING).
CAVI Subject: FR. A: BIRTH OF ATHENA? AT LEFT, A FOOT-STOOL WITH FEET OF ONE SEATED (ZEUS?)
AND A STANDING FEMALE FACING; LOWER PART OF HERMES TO RIGHT; SPRIG (OR PART OF A
BUSH?). FR. B: A BEARDED MALE (DIONYSUS) SEATED TO RIGHT HOLDING UP A KANTHAROS;
BELOW IT, TWO WREATHS HELD UP BY SOMEONE.
CAVI Inscriptions: FR. A: TO LEFT OF HERMES' LEGS, VERTICALLY DOWN AND FACING HERMES: [Hε]ρμες,
RETR. FR. B: ONCE STARTING AT THE TOP OF THE HEAD, DOWNWARD IN FRONT OF THE
FIGURE, AND FACING HIM: [Δι]ονυσος, RETR.
CAVI Comments: 2 FRS. T.-N. COMPARES THE INSCRIPTIONS ON BOSTON 67.1006 (CAVI 2819), OF THE
ARCHIPPE GROUP (ESP. HERMES).
CAVI Number: 4027B
AVI Bibliography: TUNA-NöRLING (1993), 16FF., FIGS. 10-11. — TUNA-NöRLING (1997), 438-39, FIGS.
FIGS. 8-11 (ALL SHOW INSCRIPTIONS; FIGS. 9 AND 11 ARE DRS.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
