CAVI Lemma: RF lekythos. From Sicily? Manner of Achilles Painter{1}. Second quarter
fifth. 460-450. 450 (Oakley).
CAVI Subject: Death of Orpheus: a Thracian woman killing him with her sword.
CAVI Inscriptions: To right of her face: Αλκιμαχος | καλος | Επιχαρο̅ς.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} close to his early work (Beazley).
CAVI Comments: On p. 11 n. 3, Oakley says that the inscription is spaced in a manner similar
to the same inscription on Geneva, Musee d'Art et d'Histoire (loan), his no.
114, but he does not print it in this way. He prints: Αλκιμαχος Επιχαρος καλος,
with the first two sigmas of shape `C', the third = Σ. Ionic alphabet with
simplified sigmas.
CAVI Number: 2786
AVI Bibliography: CB (1931–63), i, no. 49, pls. 22 and 26. — ARV[2] (1963), 1002/11. — Add.[2]
(1989), 313. — Maas–Snyder (1989), 112, fig. 29. — Oakley (1997), *11 n. 3,
155/N 5 (not ill.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
