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)
