CAVI Subject: SHOULDER: CHARIOT RACE. BODY: THE STRUGGLE FOR THE TRIPOD.
CAVI Inscriptions: UNDER THE FOOT, GRR.: ΛΗ. ληκυ:λ:λη. ΛΗ [[BOTH ΛΗ LIG.]]{1}. NEXT TO IT,
ALONG THE CENTRAL CAVITY, VERY MANY SHORT PARALLEL LINES, SOME LONGER (I COUNTED
A TOTAL OF 28(?)). ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS LIGATURE IS A DELTA TOPPING A
VERTICAL WITH TWO HORIZONTAL CROSS BARS (TYPE 3F IN JOHNSTON (1979); CF. ALSO 2F
AND PP. 221F.)
CAVI Footnotes: {1} LARGER THAN THE OTHER LIGATURE AND WITH A SMALLER ETA INSIDE.
CAVI Comments: EX [ROME,] DEPOLETTI. CVA, ON P. 25, GIVES ALAN JOHNSTON'S EXPLANATION: SOME
MARKS ARE WRITTEN OVER EARLIER MARKS. LAMBDA STANDS FOR 30 AND THERE OUGHT TO BE
30 STROKES IN THE TALLY. THE ORIGINAL NOTATION WAS A SMALL LIGATURE ΛΗ [[LIG.]]
(THAT FOUND UNDER THE SECOND LARGE LIGATURE) PLUS THE TALLY PLUS ληκυ:λ:λη. THE
LATER NOTATION ARE THE TWO LARGE LIGATURES AND THE DELTOID SIGN. PARALLELS FOR
THE INSCRIPTIONS: MUNICH 1717 AND TOLEDO 1969.371 (QQ.VV.). JOHNSTON, JOHNSTON
(1979), P. 221 ARGUES THAT ΛΗ IS NOT A PRICE AS STIPULATED BY AMYX, JONKEES AND
WEBSTER.
CAVI Number: 5986
AVI Bibliography: ABV (1956), 360/9. — PARA. (1971), 161. — J. BOARDMAN, CVA OXFORD 3, GREAT
BRITAIN 14 (1975), PLS. 37,5-6 AND 39,1-2; P. 24, FACS. OF GRR. — JOHNSTON
(1979), 152/2F 30, FIG. 11,G. — ADD.[2] (1989), 95.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
