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)
