CAVI Lemma: handle of RF cup. From Vulci. Unattributed. Hieron, potter. First quarter
fifth{1}.
CAVI Subject: No figured decoration preserved.
CAVI Inscriptions: In the BG area of the right hasta, Gr.: [h(?)]ιερον εποεσεν.(2)
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Kunisch gives no date (see p. 37). {2} so FR; ARV[2] has hιερον, but that
may be an error, since Beazley under 482/39 wrongly refers to no. 40. The
picture in FR shows enough space to allow for at least part of the heta, and I
wonder if it was ever written. The ph. in K. shows no trace of the heta, but it
is possible that it is hidden in repainting made when the handle was attached to
the Douris cup. K.'s sketch on p. 209 has Ιερον. The letters are larger and
neater than usual and I wonder if the signature is genuine. It may be a modern
copy.
CAVI Comments: A handle used in antiquity to mend a cup by Douris. Pi with the third bar
`pinched in.' The rho not tailed. Three-stroke sigma.
CAVI Number: 5335
AVI Bibliography: FR (1904–32), i, 114-15, pl. 24 (the handle shows, below, left). —
[[Lullies–Hirmer (1953), pls. 80 bottom, 88–91 (invis.)]]. — ARV[2] (1963),
441/185, etc. (the Douris cup); 482/39 (the handle). — Bothmer (1982), 45. —
Kunisch (1997), 7, 8 n. 37, 37, 209/452, pl. 153 (exc. picture of signature).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
