CAVI Lemma: RF stamnos. From Vulci. Close to Copenhagen Painter and Syriskos Painter{1}.
First quarter fifth. 480-470 (Lullies).
CAVI Subject: Bearded men in conversation: A: a seated man with a scepter and a man; a man,
and a seated man with a scepter. B: a seated man with his stick and a man; a man
with his stick gesticulating with a seated man with a stick. All men are
wreathed and the seated men are sitting on stools.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: to right of the head of the standing man at right (his mouth is open), at
some distance: χ^αιρε συ{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} so ARV[2]; in ARV[1] attributed to the Syriskos Painter. {2} the seated
man's scepter intervenes.
CAVI Comments: Kretschmer shows that the inscription is a greeting [i.e., they have just
met]. Tailed rho.
CAVI Number: 5279
AVI Bibliography: Kretschmer (1894), 86 n. 4. — ARV[1] (1942), 196/7. — R. Lullies, CVA Munich
5, Germany 20 (1961), pls. 242,3-4, and 243,1-4; p. 34, facs. of inscription. —
ARV[2] (1963), 259/1, 1640.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
