CAVI Lemma: Fr. from base of BG skyphos. From Athens. Unattributed. Third quarter
fifth{1}.
CAVI Subject: Undecorated.
CAVI Inscriptions: On the bottom, in two lines, Gr.:(2) [κα]τ̣α̣πυγ̣[ον] and Αριστομε[νες].
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Lang; around the middle, V.&S. {2} the lines somewhat separated, with the
first horizontal, the second curved and nearer the rim.
CAVI Comments: Numerous scratches over the word καταπυγων suggested to V.&S. that an attempt
was made to erase the word. I am not convinced that the words are one
inscription. It could be that we have a kalos-inscription for Aristomenes, while
someone added the pejorative, which was then scratched out. Aristomenes occurs
as kalos on a RF lekythos, Syracuse 21130, ARV[2] 535/1 and 1167, by the
Aristomenes Painter who recalls the Alkimachos Painter; probably late in the
second quarter of the fifth cent., hence not much, if any, earlier than the Gr.
(which Beazley does not mention). - Mixed alphabet?
CAVI Number: 0351
AVI Bibliography: Vanderpool and Stamires ms. — Milne–Bothmer (1953), 220/6, fig. 2. — Lang
(1976), 14/C 26, pl. 6 (dr.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
