CAVI Lemma: Fr. from base of BG pyxis. From Athens. Unattributed. Second half fifth.
CAVI Subject: Undecorated.
CAVI Inscriptions: Lang: (a) Gr. on projecting flange: ν]ε τον Δια και τον Α[πολλονα ...] ]εοι
τεισαιτο vacat (b) Gr. within ring-foot: και τον [---] νε το[ς αλλος θεο[ς (c)
Gr. on floor: ]κ̣ος{1}. V.&S.: (a) Gr. on bottom: N]ε τον Δια και τον Α[πολλο
και τεν Δεμετρα και τεν Αθενααν και τον Ποσειδο] και τον [Αρε]. νε το[ς] θεο[ς
παντας] αι θ[εοι τε ισαι το. (b) Gr. on the floor: --](.)ος
CAVI Footnotes: {1} there are many scratches on this Gr.; see pl. 30.
CAVI Comments: Schweigert saw that (a) is the formula of an oath; cf. Acr. ii, 1445:
[---]ραι και Κλεταγορη φιλετα(ι)[ροι] | [νη τ]ον Δια και την Δημητρα. Lang
thinks one or two other deities may have been added in the first line of (a),
which must have been followed by a wish that a certain person be avenged or
punished; (b) was then added to include one more deity and the other Olympian
gods. V.&S. had considered (a) and (b) as one inscription and added many
divinities. -ταισαιτο is clearly to be preferred to τε ισαι το, but since no
personal name is extant we cannot know if the oath is an affirmation or a curse.
Lang's version, however, lacks any reference to female divinities. The
inscription needs further study.
CAVI Number: 0446
AVI Bibliography: Vanderpool and Stamires ms. — Lang (1976), 53/G 6, pl. 30.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
