CAVI Lemma: Fr. of RF aryballos (mouth and neck). From Tarentum. Unattributed. Late
sixth.
CAVI Subject: No figured decoration preserved.
CAVI Inscriptions: On the reserved top surface of the mouth, in BG: Nαυσισ[τ]ρατος :* καλος :*
ναι :*.
CAVI Comments: A lengthy list of parallels to inscriptions put on the top surface of the
mouth of vases is given in CVA. Beazley compares especially the cockle-shell
aryballoi with the potter's signature of Phintias on the tope side of the mouth,
which have the same three-dot punctuation.
CAVI Number: 5906
AVI Bibliography: J.D. Beazley, CVA Oxford 1, Great Britain 3 (1927), pl. 49,15. — ARV[2]
(1963), 26, *1602. — AttScr (1990), no. 1114.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)