CAVI Lemma: BF neck amphora. Diosphos Painter. Early fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: Heracles and Cerberus; at left, Hades seated in a portico. B: (continued:)
Hermes and Athena, both looking back.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense, partly imitation letters: A: to left of Heracles' face: χαιλυι,
retr. Between his legs: (λ)λχχχ, retr. B: to left of Hermes' face: ιλυι̣[-(?)],
retr. To Athena's lower left: χχυλχχ̣χ. To her lower right: χχχλχ.
CAVI Comments: A small vase. Ex Gallatin collection. Very small letters. My readings. -
Readings from CVA are: nonsense: imitation letters: above Heracles' right arm,
slightly bearing downward: 6 letters, rendered as ιυυιαχ in CVA. Between his
legs, diagonally downward: 5 letters, rendered χυχχχ. B: to left of Hermes'
head, diagonally downward: 4 letters, rendered ιυυι.To left of Athena's legs,
downward: 7 letters, rendered χχχγχυχ (Attic gamma?). To her lower right,
vertically down: 5 letters, rendered χχχυχ.
CAVI Number: 5694
AVI Bibliography: Haspels (1936), 240/155. — ABV (1956), 509/155, 703. — M.B. Moore and D. von
Bothmer, CVA New York 4, USA 16 (1976), pl. 50,5-6. — Add.[2] (1989), 127.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
