CAVI Lemma: BG LEKANIS. FROM CUMAE. UNATTRIBUTED. CA. 450.
CAVI Subject: NO FIGURED DECORATION.
CAVI Inscriptions: GRR., IN THREE LINES: ιχθυαι ΔΙ- | ΔΡ ΙΙΙΙ | ΑΠ [[ΔΡ AND ΑΠ LIG.]].
CAVI Comments: ιχθυη: A POT FOR SERVING FISH: THE WORD ALSO OCCURS ON TWO LOST VASES: EX
POURTALèS AND EX NAPLES, BETTI. JOHNSTON THINKS IT IS THE LEKANIS. HE ALSO
ACCEPTS ΔΡ (WITH TAILED RHO) AS AN EARLY SIGN FOR DRACHMA, AGAINST AMYX. HE
IMPLIES A READING OF THE PRICE INSCRIPTION AS 11 ICHTHYAI FOR 4 DRACHMAS (CA. 2
OBOLS A PIECE); SEE HACKL (1909), P. 74.
CAVI Number: 5352
AVI Bibliography: HACKL (1909), NO. 601A, 74, PL. 3. — AMYX (1958), 299, PL. 54,F (AFTER
HACKL). — JOHNSTON (1979), 91/3B 4, 163/6F 1, 229-30.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
