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)
