CAVI Lemma: Plain lip cup. From Elche{1}. Unattributed. Third quarter sixth. Mid-sixth
(Olmos).
CAVI Subject: Int.: in the center, a large reserved area with a dot in the center and a
marginal line; on the inside of the lip, a band of parallel lines. Ext.: lip:
plain.
CAVI Inscriptions: Handle zone: A: hο παις v. καλος. B: similar (not ill.).
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Elche is 25 km South of Alicante in SE Spain.
CAVI Comments: The inscription is not clearly visible. The heta is in a break (there is
definitely a letter there) and lambda and sigma are clear. The inscription is
therefore Attic and so must be the vase, although its inside decoration
resembles Ionian cups (Olmos refers to Samian cups and to R. Ramos, El Museo
Arqueologico de Elche (1987) 57). ho pais kalos on a LM cup is most unusual and
this is one of the earliest appearances of this formula. Cf. perhaps Athens,
Agora P 12, fr. of a BF (LM?) cup; and Athens, Agora P 17,827, Gr. on a BG
skyphos of the mid-sixth cent. (AttScr (1990), [[no. 296, p.]] 56).
CAVI Number: 3409
AVI Bibliography: Olmos (1990), 7, pl. 7.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
