CAVI Lemma: WG LEKYTHOS. CARLSRUHE PAINTER. SECOND QUARTER FIFTH.
CAVI Subject: WOMAN AT A LAVER.
CAVI Inscriptions: ON THE LAVER: Hο (π)α[ι](ς){1}. TO LEFT OF THE WOMAN'S HEAD: κα̣λο[ς]. TO
RIGHT OF HER FACE: NONSENSE: χσηλ.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} MY READING, WHICH IS VERY DOUBTFUL FOR THE SECOND WORD. THE THIRD LETTER
IS PERHAPS A μ; SMITH READ κο(ν)ιασ, WITH A DOT BY THE NU, WHICH COULD MAKE IT
INTO A MU (I TOO SAW SUCH A DOT); FAIRBANKS HAS κομασ, WHICH COULD BE A NAME: Hο
Κομας | καλο[ς](?). BUT NOTE THE NONSENSE INSCRIPTION. NONSENSE IS COMMON WITH
THIS PAINTER.
CAVI Comments: SMALL LETTERS, HASTY: NEAR IMITATION. CROMEY, LETTER OF 1 JULY, 2000: TO LEFT
OF WOMAN'S HEAD: καλ(η) [KAPPA 6 ANGULAR; LAMBDA 2, LEANING ONLY SLIGHTLY; `ETA'
MISWRITTEN (BUT SURELY NOT OMICRON SIGMA).] TO RIGHT OF FACE: χ](μ)ε. ON THE
LAVER: κομας [THE MU NOTED BY C. AS `LAME'; THAT ON THE LAST INSCRIPTION IS
DISJOINTED: NU + A VERTICAL. SIGMA 2, Z-SHAPED.] THE LETTER SAYS: `MY NOTE SAYS:
"IT CAN'T BE READ AMD MAY MEAN NOTHING." THERE IS NO Hο παις, CERTAINLY.' C.
ALSO SAYS: `LETTERS SMALL, LIGHT BROWN, DIFFICULT TO READ.' [I THINK: CONSIDER
THE KIND OF WRITING THE CARLSRUHE PTR. DOES. PERHAPS καλη AND TWO NONSENSE
WORDS? FOR LETTER FORMS SEE THE CHART IN ATTSCR.]
CAVI Number: 4408
AVI Bibliography: FAIRBANKS (1907), GROUP A, CLASS 3, NO. 66. — ARV[2] (1963), 734/91. —
LISSARRAGUE (1988), FIG. 14,2.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
