CAVI Lemma: FRAGMENTARY LIP CUP. UNATTRIBUTED. THIRD QUARTER SIXTH. 550-530.
CAVI Subject: LIP: A AND B: NO FIGURED DECORATION.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: HANDLE ZONE: SHORT AND WELL CENTERED: Ϙομαιο(ς){1}. B: Ϙομαιος{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} SIMON READS Ϙομαιοι, BUT CONSIDERS IT A KNOWN EPITHET OF APOLLO KOMAIOS.
THE REGULAR ENDING WOULD BE κομοιος, BUT CF. σκοτος/σκοταιος, χερσος/χερσαιος.
THE SUGGESTION IS ORIGINALLY HERTER'S. THE LAST LETTER IS A VERTICAL STROKE,
WHICH COULD BE A SIMPLIFIED SIGMA (SEE ABOVE). {2} THE LAST LETTER LOOKED MORE
LIKE A SIGMA THAN THAT ON A.
CAVI Comments: THE PHOTO (OF A) IS SMALL, AND MY OWN READINGS ARE UNCERTAIN: ϙο(μ)αιοι
(FIRST READING); ϙομαιο(ς) (SECOND READING). THE FIRST LETTER DOES NOT LOOK MUCH
LIKE A KOPPA UNLESS THE HEAD ATTACHES TO THE TOP LEFT OF THE VERTICAL; BUT CVA
CLEARLY INDICATES KOPPA. THE MU ON A SEEMS TO CONSIST OF A VERTICAL PLUS ATTIC
GAMMA. I ORIGINALLY THOUGHT A NONSENSE INSCRIPTION MORE LIKELY. THE FINAL SIGMA
RESEMBLES IOTA IN THE FACS., PROBABLY SO ON BOTH SIDES. LISSARRAGUE READS
ϙομαιος AND INTERPRETS IT AS `A VASE FOR THE KOMOS,' OR EPITHET OF APOLLO
KOMAIOS. LGPN II HAS TWO PROPER NAMES: Κομαιος (4 BC) AND Κωμαιος (4/3 AND 2
BC), BUT DOES NOT LIST THE VASE UNDER EITHER. HöLSCHER THINKS THE NAME IS
KOMAIOS, A COMMON NAME, FOR WHICH HE REFERS TO SIMON (1968), 135F, FIGS. 18-19
WHO DISCUSSES THIS VASE. SEE FURTHER, L. ROBERT (1934), 26FF.; JHS 25 (1905)
116/32 (DEDICATORY INSCRIPTION ON A VASE FR.). Κομαιος IS ALSO AN EPITHET OF
APOLLO: SIMON, OP. CIT. 135F. SHE HERSELF READS Ϙομαιοι: THE KNOWN EPITHET OF
APOLLO KOMAIOS IN THE DATIVE. HöLSCHER SPECULATES THAT SINCE THE NAME RECALLS
κωμος [BUT IS IT NOT FROM κωμη(?)] IT IS PERHAPS AN ANONYMOUS DEDICATION TO THE
DRINKER, CF. RE, S.V. KOMOS (LAMER). COULD IT BE A KALOS-NAME WITHOUT KALOS?
[[ADDENDA: I ORIGINALLY THOUGHT MORE LIKELY A NONSENSE INSCRIPTION, ALTHOUGH
Κωμαιος IS ALSO A PROPER NAME: PA 8952-53 (4-3 BC AND 2 BC).]]
CAVI Number: 8042
AVI Bibliography: BADB 2478. — PHOTOS IN BEAZLEY ARCHIVE. — SIMON (1968), 135/12, FIGS. 18-19.
— F. HöLSCHER, CVA WüRZBURG 1, GERMANY 39 (1975), PL. 40,3 (A), FIG. 24
(PROFILE); P. 45, FACS. OF INSCR., PROB. OF A). — ATTSCR (1990), NO. 1074. —
LISSARRAGUE (1990A), 65 AND N. 40, FIG. 47H (SKETCH OF INSCRIPTION ON A).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
