CAVI Lemma: BF SIANA CUP. FROM ETRURIA. UNATTRIBUTED. SECOND QUARTER SIXTH.
CAVI Subject: INT.: A MAN RUNNING. EXT.: NO FIGURED DECORATION (INSCRIPTIONS ON THE LIP).
CAVI Inscriptions: INT.: NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS POORLY REPORTED IN CVA: TO LEFT OF THE MAN'S
FACE, IN A DOWNWARD CURVE: αγβξμαο̣(.)(.), RETR.{1}. (COMBINING AUTOPSY WITH THE
PHOTO IN CVA). CVA'S TEXT TRIES TO READ Αλεξ[ι]μα(χ)ος. TO RIGHT OF THE MAN'S
HEAD, SIMILARLY CURVED: [--]υκςβ(ατ), THE LAST TWO LETTERS UPSIDE DOWN. A THIRD
INSCRIPTION IS BETWEEN THE MAN'S LEGS. EXT.: INSCRIPTIONS WELL-SPACED ON THE
LIP, GOING PARTLY UNDER THE HANDLES: A: BEAZLEY'S READING IN JHS: καλον ειμι το
ποτεριον καλ[ον]. B: NONSENSE: GIVEN AS REPETITION OF καυ NOT LESS THAN THREE
TIMES.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} `IONIC' GAMMA.
CAVI Comments: RESTORED. I SUSPECT USE OF THE CORINTHIAN ALPHABET, AS THE USE OF BETA (AND
OF COURSE XI) WOULD BE VERY UNUSUAL IN ATTIC NONSENSE.
CAVI Number: 6293
AVI Bibliography: BADB 915. — PHOTO. — POTTIER (1897–1922), ...., 97, PL. 68. — BEAZLEY (1932),
178, N. 1. — E. POTTIER, CVA LOUVRE 8, FRANCE 12 (1933), III H E, PL. 77,8,12
(INT., A). — AMYX (1958), 207 N. 51 (MENTION). — LAZZARINI (1973–4), PL. 65,1.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
