CAVI Comments: Clear letters (A). The inscription on A after the photo in Langlotz; that on
B after his text. He reads: A: ἐμὲ σὺ ποίει, κέλευ' ἐμὲ εἰς σέ. And: B: εὖ
κελεύεις : εὖ ποιεῖς, κυνέ. In this, he is approximately following Urlichs; see
Kretschmer who is more doubtful, but thinks it might be obscene. Beazley rightly
considers the inscriptions meaningless, cf. also Threatte (1980), 300. Note the
slight gaps between the letters on A, here marked by ^. The inscriptions play
with a number of words common on vases, such as εποιεσεν and ευ, plus some
others. Illiterate or deliberate mocking?
CAVI Number: 8095
AVI Bibliography: Kretschmer (1894), 93. — V.Pol. (1928), 4, n. 1. — Beazley (1932), 182. —
Langlotz (1932), 78, pl. 117. — ABV (1956), 166/2.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
