CAVI Lemma: WG lekythos. From Greece. Unattributed. Potter work: Beldam workshop. Second
quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: Three funerary stelae (of the kind shown on vases for private funerals).
CAVI Inscriptions: To right of each, vertically, in relief line: .[...]χ̣ος. Αριστιπ[π]ος{1}.
Διφιλος.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Threatte (1996), 761 (late occurrences of single sp. of long consonants).
CAVI Comments: For Διφιλος Beazley compares Agora P 15,436, where it is a kalos-name.
Clairmont argues convincingly for a privately commissioned lekythos
memorializing a public funeral. - The date should be close to 450. Ionic
alphabet: Ionic lambda with the left stroke shorter; four-stroke sigma: phi with
a long vertical.
CAVI Number: 3152
AVI Bibliography: Tarbell (1908), 428 ff., fig. 1 (dr.). — Wolters (1913a), 6. — ARV[2] (1963),
752 and 1575. — Clairmont (1983), 63 and n. 13. — AttScr (1990), no. 673.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
