CAVI Lemma: WG lekythos. From Athens. Unattributed. Date unclear.
CAVI Subject: Oriental riding a camel.
CAVI Inscriptions: κ(α)λο[ς] | Μι[--]{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Klein read Μι[κων], but Beazley says that he "can hardly be right." AM 15
also has Nikon. {2} Wolters says that the reading Midas is impossible. The
inscription given as a `left-aligned two-liner, and restored as Mikon [after
Klein].'
CAVI Comments: Said to have been found in the vicinity of the German Arch. Institute in
Athens (Fairbanks). Alpha without cross stroke.
CAVI Number: 1899
AVI Bibliography: Dörpfeld (1890), 347 (mention). — Wolters (1892), 434-47, pl.1,1 (dr.){2}. —
Klein (1898), 154. — Fairbanks (1907), Group D, Class 7, Series 2, no. 5. —
ARV[2] (1963), 1613, bottom.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
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