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)
