CAVI Lemma: BG cup. From Athens. Unattributed. Second quarter fifth. 470-460.
CAVI Subject: Undecorated.
CAVI Inscriptions: On the floor and under the foot, each, Gr.: Δε[μοσιον] [[Δε lig.]].
CAVI Comments: One of a group of eleven BG cups or fragments with this ligature, found in a
well under the Stoa of Zeus; the numbers of the 10 other cups are: P 5118, P
5120, P 5121, P 5123, P 5125, P 7575, P 5116, P 5119, P 5122, P 5124, = Lang, Fa
3-12. Other shapes from the same location: P 5140, P 5158, P 5181, = Fa 13 - 15.
Other vases came from the Tholos area; no doubt marked as public property. Cf.
also Hesp. 42 (1973) 383 and pl. 68,d: ligature of ΔΕ [[lig.]] for δημοσια on 13
cups, bowls, etc., from the Kitchen Deposit in the Agora. Futher Rotroff–Oakley
(1992), 36 nn. 7-8 and under no. 181. The numbers of the 10 other cups with ΔΕ
[[lig.]] are: P 5118, P 5120, P 5121, P 5123, P 5125, P 7575, P 5116, P 5119, P
5122, P 5124, = Fa 3-12. Other shapes from the same location: P 5140, P 5158, P
5181, = Fa 13 - 15.
CAVI Number: 0333
AVI Bibliography: Talcott (1936), 353, fig. 23. — Cf. also H.A. Thompson (1940), 126(a) and
127, and ibid. 141. — Lang (1960), fig. 5. — Sparkes–Talcott (1970), 265/436,
pl. 20. — Lang (1976), 51/Fa 2, pl. 29 (drs.). — Cf. Rotroff–Oakley (1992), 27
n. 60.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
