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)
