CAVI Lemma: WG lekythos. Achilles Painter. Ca. 450. 460/55-450 (Oakley).
CAVI Subject: "Mistress and Maid": woman seated in a chair to right, playing the lyre;
above and behind her, at the top, a sash; above her head, at the top, an
oinochoe hung up; woman to left holding a sash; behind her and at the top, a
sash and oinochoe hung up.
CAVI Inscriptions: Between the figures, below the top margin, horizontaal stoich. left-aligned
three-liner: Διφιλος | καλος | Μελανοπ|ο. ....... ..... ......:{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the final omicron of the father's name is in the stoichos vertically; but
it is not quite in line horizontally with line 2 but is slightly below that
line.
CAVI Comments: Listed as G. 2107 in ARV[2]. The final letter written above the line to
square the tabella. Ionic alphabet with omicron for omega. Ionic lambda, once
with the second leg shorter and once resembling lambda S 6 (see chart in
AttScr). Sigmas typical of Achilles Painter. Phi with extended vertical.
CAVI Number: 7499
AVI Bibliography: Antonsson (1958), 1105. — ARV[2] (1963), 996/135. — AttScr (1990), no. 687,
fig. 127. — Oakley (1997), 139/185, color pl. 1A-B (both show the inscription
distorted).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
