CAVI Collection: MISSISSIPPI, UNIVERSITY 1977.3.82.
CAVI Lemma: BF/WG LEKYTHOS. FROM ATTICA. DIOSPHOS PAINTER. FIRST QUARTER FIFTH. 500-490
(TURNBULL).
CAVI Subject: IRIS AND HERMES CONVERSING.
CAVI Inscriptions: NONSENSE: TO RIGHT OF IRIS' HEAD: (.)υχ{1}. TO RIGHT OF HERMES' UPPER BODY:
χχ(.)χγχ. TO RIGHT OF HIS LOWER BODY: (.)(τ)ιχσ{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} THE FIRST LETTER RESEMBLES AN ARROW POINTING UPWARD. {2} THE READINGS ARE
FROM THE PHOTO, WHICH IS NOT VERY CLEAR.
CAVI Comments: EX BALTIMORE, D.M. ROBINSON. TURNBULL CHARACTERIZES THE INSCRIPTIONS AS
FOLLOWS: "THE `INSCRIPTIONS' ARE NONSENSE, STRINGS OF T'S AND X'S USED SIMPLY TO
BREAK UP THE SPACE AROUND THE FIGURES AND MAKE A PATTERN THAT LINKS THEM
VISUALLY TO THE INTRICATE ARRANGEMENT OF PALMETTES ON EITHER SIDE."
CAVI Number: 5106
AVI Bibliography: V.POL. (1928), 79 (ADD. TO 7). — D.M. ROBINSON, CVA ROBINSON 1, USA 4 (1934),
53 (FACS.), PL. 38,7. — HASPELS (1936), 111 AND 235[[/67]]. — KURTZ (1975), 98,
FIG. 28,A (SHOULDER PALMETTES). — TURNBULL (1981), 24/5.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
