CAVI Lemma: BF lekythos. From Selinus, tomb 42 (excavations of 1964). Unattributed. Third
quarter sixth (Tusa).
CAVI Subject: Theseus and the Minotaur, between women and men looking on.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: imitation letters or dots: four rows, two to left and two to right
of Theseus and the Minotaur. In the BG area below the picture, Gr. in large
letters, in two irregular lines: Ἀριστοκλείας ε̅̓μὶ τὰς καλ|ὰς καλά· hαύτα δ’
ἐμά· Πίθαϙος αἰτέσας ἔχει{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} The first line starts under the Minotaur, i.e. in the middle of the
picture; the second line is written above it (but still in the BG) and starts
much further to the left. The text is that of ZPE: the pictures show only a
portion of the right-hand part of the inscription. The original reading εμι in
line 2 is corrected to εμα by M. and T. after Tusa (see ZPE n. 7.).
CAVI Comments: M. and T. follow Gallavotti in reading two iambic trimeters: Αριστοκλειας εμι
τας καλας καλα· hαυτα δ’ εμα· Πιθαϙος αιτεσας εχει. The vase speaks. For the
meaning of the graffito see the discussion in ZPE.
CAVI Number: 6031
AVI Bibliography: Guarducci (1974), 340 n. 1 (but inscr. is not a Dip.). — Gallavotti (1979),
53ff. — Tusa (1982), 171-78, fig. 2, pls. 42-44. — O. Masson and J. Taillardat
(1985), 137-40, pl. 9. — Engelmann (1986), 102. — SEG 39 (1989), no. 938. —
Johnston (1990), 461/M (not ill.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
