CAVI Lemma: Fragmentary foot of vase (?) [["rough decoration in black (Beazley)"]]{1}.
From Athens. Unattributed. End of sixth (Kirchner (1948)).
CAVI Subject: Rough blots in BG as decoration.
CAVI Inscriptions: On an inner BG band, Gr., facing out: ανδρες εποιεσαν σοφιαισιν καλον ^
αγαλμα vacat{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} so ABV. {2} the inscription takes up somewhat more than half the
circumference. The last word is slightly separated.
CAVI Comments: Complete. Benndorf suggested that a preamble elsewhere clarified the
inscription. I rather think that this hexameter is additional to a real
signature (potter's and painter's, whence the plural?) elsewhere on the object.
The writing is hasty and fluent. Triangular rho.
CAVI Number: 1544
AVI Bibliography: IG i suppl. (1877–91), p. 131, no. 373/12a. — Kaibel (1878), 1100. — Six
(1888), 144 and n. 1. — IG i(2) (1924), no. 522. — Graef–Langlotz (1925–33), ii,
no. 1348, pl. 93. — Kirchner (1948), pl. 7/16. — Beazley (1954c), 98. — ABV
(1956), 351. — CEG (1983–9), i, no. 291.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
