CAVI Lemma: BF/WG LEKYTHOS. UNATTRIBUTED. DATE UNCLEAR.
CAVI Subject: INTRODUCTION OF HERACLES TO OLYMPUS: HERMES, ATHENA, DIONYSUS, HERACLES,
ARES.
CAVI Inscriptions: TO HERMES' RIGHT: Hε^γμ(σ)^(λ){1}. ABOVE DIONYSUS' HEAD: Ιακχ(σ)ε^{2}. TO
RIGHT OF HERACLES' BACK, FACING HIM: (H)ερ^(α)κλες{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} THE BRACKETED SIGMA IS A FOUR-STROKE SIGMA LYING ON ITS BACK; THE LAMBDA
HAS THE `ARGIVE' FORM (NOT A REAL LAMBDA). THE CADUCEUS AND A HAND INTERVENE.
{2} THE BRACKETED SIGMA RESEMBLES AN UPSIDE DOWN SIDEWAYS SIGMA, BUT WITH SOFT
CORNERS. THE INSCRIPTION RUNS INTO AN ARM. {3} THE HETA RESEMBLES A REVERSED NU,
THE ALPHA IS A TRIANGLE. A SPEAR INTERVENES.
CAVI Comments: WRITTEN BY AN ILLITERATE: MISSHAPEN AND MISUNDERSTOOD LETTERS. ATTIC ALPHABET
SO FAR AS DISCERNABLE.
CAVI Number: 7164
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
