CAVI Lemma: WG LEKYTHOS. FROM ATHENS. ACHILLES PAINTER. CA. 460. 460/55-450 (OAKLEY).
EARLY (BEAZLEY).
CAVI Subject: MISTRESS AND MAID: WOMAN TO RIGHT CARRYING AN OFFERING TRAY FROM WHICH HANG
MANY FILLETS; WOMAN SEATED TO LEFT, HER HANDS READY TO RECEIVE THE TRAY; ABOVE
HER HEAD, MIRROR AND OINOCHOE HUNG UP.
CAVI Inscriptions: TO RIGHT OF THE CARRIER'S HEAD, AT TOP AND ABOVE THE BASKET, HORIZONTAL
NEAR-STOICH. LEFT-ALIGNED THREE-LINER: Λιχα̣ς | καλο̣ς | Σαμ[ιο̃]ς{1}. THE THIRD
LINE IS NOT QUITE STOICH.: . . . . . / . . . . . /. . . .
CAVI Footnotes: {1} IN ARV[1] BEAZLEY WRONGLY GAVE THE FATHER'S NAME AS SAMIOS, BUT THIS IS
CORRECTED IN ARV[2] TO SAMIEUS; SEE MEISTERHANS(3) 141, PARA. 10. THE FATHER'S
NAME IS Σαμιεύς. - THE SIGMAS ARE PRINTED BY C. SMITH AS FOUR-STROKE, IN ARV[2]
THE LAST TWO ARE PRINTED AS LUNATE, WHILE KRETSCHMER GIVES ONLY THE SECOND AND
FOURTH AS LUNATE (THIS IS CRITICIZED BY SMITH).- MY NOTATION: SIGMA 4 VERY FLAT
(TWICE) AND ONCE NEAR S 15 (SEE CHART IN ATTSCR).- FURTHER, THERE IS A LOST AREA
AFTER THE FOURTH LETTERS OF LINES 1 AND 2, WHICH MAKES THE FINAL LETTERS TO COME
AT AN UNREASONABLE DISTANCE; I WONDER IF THIS IS RESTORED PROPERLY. THE POSITION
OF THE THREE FINAL LETTERS TO EACH OTHER ALSO SEEMS TO ME QUESTIONABLE.
CAVI Comments: SECOND WHITE USED.
CAVI Number: 4413
AVI Bibliography: KRETSCHMER (1894), 102. — BOSANQUET (1896), 164 AND PL. 6. — C.H. SMITH IN BM
CAT. E (1896), 402-3 (NOT ILL.). — ARV[2] (1963), 995/123, 1677. — PARA. (1971),
438. — OAKLEY (1997), 137/173, PL. 95A (SHOWS INSCRIPTION SMALL).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
