CAVI Lemma: RF AMPHORA. FROM GREECE. UNATTRIBUTED. LAST QUARTER FIFTH. CA. 420 (RICHTER).
CAVI Subject: A: APOLLO AND MUSES: APOLLO SEATED AT LEFT, WITH HIS LYRE; A STANDING MUSE; A
SEATED MUSE WITH A WREATH. B: ADRASTUS IN A CHARIOT TO LEFT.
CAVI Inscriptions: INSCRIPTIONS: GRR. FILLED WITH WHITE(1): A: ABOVE APOLLO'S HEAD:
[Α]π̣ολλω̣ν̣. ABOVE THE STANDING MUSE: Ορα[ν]ια̣. B: TO LEFT OF ADRASTUS'
FOREHEAD: Αδραστος. ABOVE THE HORSES' HEADS, IN LARGER LETTERS WHICH ARE MORE
WIDELY SPACED: κ̣αλος{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} D. FEYTMANS CITES A LETTER FROM G.M.A. RICHTER, IN WHICH SHE SAYS THAT
THE WHITE IN THE GROOVES OF THE LETTERS IS NOT INCRUSTATION; IT COULD BE MODERN,
BUT THEN WHY NOT IN ALL THE LETTERS; R. WAS NOT QUITE CERTAIN THAT IT IS
ANCIENT, SINCE THERE IS SOME WHITE ALSO WHERE THERE WAS ONCE THE NU OF OURANIA.
A RF CUP IN BRUSSELS SHOWS THE SAME TECHNIQUE. {2} NOT NECESSARILY CONNECTED
WITH ADRASTUS.
CAVI Comments: IS IT CERTAIN THAT THE INSCRIPTIONS ARE ANCIENT? THE WHITE (SEE BELOW) HAS
MOSTLY DISAPPEARED. THE NAME OF THE SEATED MUSE IS MISSING. THREE-STROKE SIGMAS
IN THE NAME OF ADRASTUS; ELSEWHERE THEY ARE FOUR-STROKE. THE ONLY RF
REPRESENTATION OF ADRASTUS; RICHTER CONNECTS THIS WITH THE ALLIANCE WITH ARGOS
IN 420. MIXED ALPHABET.
CAVI Number: 5618
AVI Bibliography: RICHTER–MILNE (1935), FIG. 30. — RICHTER–HALL (1936), I, 197/157, PL. 156
(PHOTOS.; BIBL.). — FEYTMANS (1948), 65 N. 1.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
