CAVI Lemma: RF lekythos. Carlsruhe Painter. Second quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: Bearded man, leaning on his stick and holding out a flute case; his mouth is
open. Behind him, strigil and sponge hung up.
CAVI Inscriptions: To right of his mouth, nonsense: imitation letters: πυο(ν)(ν)ι{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} I want to thank I. Wehgartner for sending me a picture (the original of
fig. 2 in her article). This shows, from the open mouth, slightly bearing
upward: πυο... (the rest is unclear). I originally read the inscription upside
down: (.)(γ)ο(σ)(σ)(ι), but this is erroneous. The facs. must be turned 180
degrees: πυο(ν)(ν)ι. The nu's are reversed; they are read as sigmas by Neumann,
which is not impossible, but I do not see a tau or an epsilon.
CAVI Comments: Ex Mainz, Brommer collection. Ex Lembessis. - The inscription is read by
Neumann: πτοσσε (πτῶσσε): the man, on his way to a symposium, is holding out the
flute case to someone, probably a hetaera (not represented), and says to her:
`duck', i.e. he wants to have intercourse. But the inscription seems to be the
Carlsruhe Painter's usual nonsense.
CAVI Number: 2503
AVI Bibliography: Photo (detail with inscription). — ARV[2] (1963), 733/76. — Kumme (1989), no.
275. — Wehgartner (1989), 223-231, fig. 1, facs. of inscr. by M. Heilmeyer, p.
230. — I. Wehgartner, CVA Berlin 8, Germany 62 (1991), pls. 4,1-4 and 5,5,
Beilage 3,2.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
