CAVI Subject: ON THE BODY: STARS, GARLANDS, WREATH. IN THE HANDLE ZONE: WAVE PATTERN AND
EGG PATTERN. ALL APPLIED.
CAVI Inscriptions: ON THE BG RIM IN LARGE APPLIED LETTERS, HORIZONTAL AND WITHOUT A BREAK:
Καστωρ Πολυδευ{ι}κης.
CAVI Comments: THE KANTHAROS HAS A RATTLE. GMUSJ CONSIDERS THE INSCRIPTION A DEDICATION TO
THE DIOSCURI. FOR THE SHAPE SEE SPARKES–TALCOTT (1970), 117-19. THE RIM MAY HAVE
HAD A RATTLE IN IT; FOR BIBL. ON THESE, SEE SCHREIBER NOTE 9. - THE LETTERS ARE
ORNAMENTAL IN THE SENSE THAT THE MAJORITY ARE SMALLISH AND RAISED, WITH SOME
TALLER AND GOING BELOW THE LINE: I UNDERLINE THE SHORT RAISED LETTERS:
καστωρπολυδευικης [[κ, α, ω, λ, η, ς]]. IONIC ALPHABET.
CAVI Number: 5027
AVI Bibliography: TSOUNTAS (1885A), PL. 5, FIG. 4. — SUMMA (1981), LOT 16. — SCHREIBER (1999),
124, PL. 9, BOTTOM (EXC. PH. OF A).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
