CAVI Collection: Princeton, University Art Museum 29.180.
CAVI Lemma: BF skyphos. From Sardes. Unattributed. Kritomenes (?) or Klitomenes (?),
potter. Third quarter sixth. 550-530.
CAVI Subject: Int.: a swan. Ext.: no figured decoration.
CAVI Inscriptions: Handle zone: A: Κρ̣ιτομεσεν for Κρ̣ιτομενες{1}. B: εποιεσεν{σ}{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the last three letters are in reverse order. The second letter has been
much discussed. I saw a curved stroke as for an omicron or D-shaped rho;
definitely not part of a lambda, as preferred by Smith (who says that Klitomenes
occurs on Paros) and adopted by Beazley in ABV. Bothmer in Para. also opts for
rho. I do not know the name Kritomenes, which however is accepted in LGPN ii.
Smith rightly thinks the inscriptions copied from a draft, with copying errors.
{2} uneven spacing: there are gaps after the first letter, after the omicron,
before εν and before the extra sigma: ε^πο^ιεσ^εν^{σ}: `syllabic' writing of
sorts.
