CAVI Lemma: BF Tyrrhenian neck amphora. Kyllenios Painter (Bothmer). Third quarter sixth.
550-530. Late period (Kluiver).
CAVI Subject: A: fight: three duels. B: horse race: three horses to right; at left, tripod.
Below: A, B, each: three friezes: animals; floral; animals.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: nonsense: eight (not seven) nonsense inscriptions. Between the B/A handle
and the leftmost warrior, vertically down: 9 letters and two blotches. Between
his legs, horizontal: οστυϝσο, complete. To right of his head, curved: several
letters. Between the legs of the second and third warriors, interrupted by the
former's leg, diagonally downward: (χ)σοσο^λ(.)(ο)κ, retr., complete. To right
of the third warrior's face, diagonally downward: four letters. Between the
middles of the fourth and fifth warrior, downward: four letters. Between the
legs of the fifth warrior, bearing upward: (.)εσν(.)σο^σ{1}. Between the legs of
the sixth warrior, horizontal but slightly curved: at least seven letters (the
ph. is unclear).
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the first letter is a vertical stroke; the fifth is similar but seem to
have a small `head' at the upper left. A leg intervenes.
CAVI Comments: The readings in CVA are useless.
CAVI Number: 6261
AVI Bibliography: BADB 310,074. — E. Pottier, CVA Louvre 1, France 1 (1923), pl. 3,11,7
(bibl.). — ABV (1956), 100/75. — Kluiver (1996), 2/117 (inscrr. not mentioned),
figs. 1-4 (A, B, sides; 1, 3-4, show inscriptions small).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
