CAVI Lemma: RF cup. From Vulci. Epeleios Painter. Last quarter sixth. Ca. 510. Late sixth
(Ashmead?Phillips).
CAVI Subject: Int.: youth leaning on his stick. Ext.: conversations: A: bearded man,
seated, and six youths. B: six youths, in three groups of two, that in the
center seated.
CAVI Inscriptions: Int.: in a half circle starting to right of face: Επελειος and to its left,
similar: καλος v. ναιχι, retr. A: above a youth seated at the extreme left:
Θ̣εοδορος; by his face: ναιχι; and to left of a companion: κ[α]λο(ς), retr. -
Near the next youth: hο παις and καλος, retr. - Starting from the seated man's
closed mouth: Επελειος and behind the youth with a flower whom the man greets:
καλος, and ναιχι. - Between the last two youths: hο πα[ις] and καλος, retr. - B:
left and right of the left youth's head: Ισραχος καλ[ο]ς. - To left and right of
the central youth (again with a flower and again faced by a seated person, here
a youth, who greets him): Ε[πελ]ειος, retr., and καλος and ναιχι, retr. - Two
youths greet each other: hο παις and καλος.
CAVI Comments: The Ext. has five pairs of youths in conversation plus a group of three (a
bearded man seated and greeting a youth, with another youth behind watching).
The inscriptions tie in with these groups and are almost like conversations
themselves; cf. vases cited in AttScr (1990), 70, 74, 75 and 84. - CVA's
readings agree with mine; both are more complete than Bothmer's in ARV[2].
Επελειος: i.e., Επιλεος = Επιλαος (Pape). Επελῃος = Επιλεως (Beazley, ARV[2] 146
and 1576). The form is the same on the four vases by the E. Painter, except once
Επελιος beside Επελειος on Munich 2619 (ARV[2] 146/2). Epsilon for short iota is
said to be rare in Threatte (1980), 138. The name is not in PA. LGPN ii prints
Επελειος. - Ισραχος for Ισαρχος also on Munich 2619.
CAVI Number: 2972
AVI Bibliography: Swindler (1916), 322-27, p. 323 (ph. of Int.), figs. 11-12 (after Gsell,
Fouilles (1891), pls. 13-16, drs.). ? Hoppin (1919), i, 296. ? Richter (1958),
53 (mention). ? ARV[2] (1963), 147/18 (Bothmer's readings). ? A. Ashmead and K.
Phillips, Jr., CVA Bryn Mawr 1, USA 13 (1971), pls. 3-4 (all; many inscriptions
show clearly). ? Add.[2] (1989), 179. ? VA (1989), 12. ? AttScr (1990), no.
1012.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
