CAVI Lemma: BF PLATE. FROM ATTICA{2}. UNATTRIBUTED. LATE SIXTH. CA. 510 (BOTHMER).
CAVI Subject: AN AMAZON CARRYING A DEAD COMRADE.
CAVI Inscriptions: BEHIND THEIR BACKS, ALONG THE MARGIN AND NOT FACING THE FIGURES: Μελο καλε.
BETWEEN THE LEGS: Κορονε. TO RIGHT OF THE FORWARD FOOT, BELOW ONE SHIELD: καλε,
I.E., Κορονε καλε. TO RIGHT OF THE FIGURES: Hο παις AND καλος. IN THE EXERGUE:
Hο παις καλος.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} EX NEW YORK, MARTIN; ONCE LENT TO MET. MUS.: L.48.35.2. IN PARA. THE
LOCATION IS GIVEN AS GUENNOL (LONG ISLAND), MARTIN. NOW IN MET. MUS. {2} FOUND
IN A TOMB: SEE BOTHMER (1957), 97. {3} LGPN II READS Μελω, BUT BEAZLEY'S Μηλω
SEEMS PREFERABLE.
CAVI Comments: FOR KORONE, SEE ABV 677: PARALLELS ARE LYONS 75, HASPELS (1936), 229/2 (WITH
καλη) AND BERLIN INV. 3251, ARV[2] 113/7 (WITHOUT καλη). FOR MELO SEE ANTH. PAL.
5.206. I THINK BOTH ARE NAMES OF HETAERAE, ALTHOUGH BEAZLEY IN ABV 677 SAYS:
"MELO AND KORONE MIGHT BE THE NAMES OF THE AMAZONS, BUT, CONSIDERING THE OTHER
INSCRIPTIONS, THEY ARE MORE LIKELY NOT."(3) SMALL AND NEAT LETTERS.
