CAVI Lemma: FRS. OF BF LIP CUP (TWO FRS.). FROM VULCI. UNATTRIBUTED. THIRD QUARTER SIXTH.
CAVI Subject: A: SIREN WITH OUTSPREAD WINGS (THE FR. IS LOST). B: SIMILAR.
CAVI Inscriptions: HANDLE ZONE: A: WELL CENTERED: Ανδριας καλ[λ]ιστος. B: Πυρο̣[--], I.E.,
Πυρ[ρ]ο̣[ς] WITH [εποιεσεν], [εγραφσεν] OR [καλ[λ]ιστος] FOLLOWING{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} SO CVA; BEAZLEY HAD READ Πυρ(.)[--]: IN ABV, BEAZLEY SAYS THAT THE LETTER
AFTER RHO ON A IS EITHER ALPHA OR OMICRON AND THE RESTORATION SHOULD BE Πυρρος
OR Πυρριας. IN AJA HE ALSO SAYS THAT LONDON B 400 [Γλαυκυτες εποιεσεν,
Hιπ[π]οκριτος καλ[λ]ιστος] FAVORS THE VERB [MEANING εποιεσεν?]. JUDGING BY THE
PHOTO IN AJΑ, Πυρρ[ρ]ι̣[ας εποιεσεν] SEEMED TO ME THE MOST LIKELY BEFORE I SAW
CVA, FROM WHICH THE ABOVE READINGS ARE NOW TAKEN. BEAZLEY IN ABV 664 IS UNCLEAR.
CAVI Comments: ANDRIAS IS ALSO FOUND ON VATICAN, ASTARITA, ABV 664/2. BEAZLEY ASSUMED THE
INSCRIPTION TO BE BY THE SAME HAND. THE FORM OF THE NAME IS DISCUSSED IN CVA.
GERHARD AND KLEIN SPEAK OF A CUP WITH THE ANDRIAS INSCRIPTION AS BEING WITHOUT
FIGURES; IT MUST BE THIS CUP. THE FR. WITH SIREN AND THE PYR[--] INSCRIPTION
APPEARED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD WAR II BUT HAS SINCE BEEN LOST AGAIN; IT
IS ILLUSTRATED IN AJA. NEW FRS. HAVE RECENTLY BEEN ADDED.@@[[DIAMETER: 210.]]
CAVI Number: 5381
AVI Bibliography: GERHARD (1831), 186/767. — CIG 4 (1855–77), NO. 7791. — KLEIN (1898), 51. —
BEAZLEY (1941), 596/4, FIG. 2. — ABV (1956), 664/ANDRIAS 1 AND 673/PYRRHOS OR
PYRRHIAS. — B. FELLMANN, CVA MUNICH 10, GERMANY 56 (1988), PL. 24,1-4 [[CL.]],
BEILAGE 6,6. — VIERNEISEL–KAESER (1990), FIG. 21.3 (A. DETAIL).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)