CAVI Lemma: RF HYDRIA (KALPIS). FROM VULCI. KLEOPHRADES PAINTER. FIRST QUARTER FIFTH.
LATE: AFTER 480 (BEAZLEY). CA. 480 (LULLIES).
CAVI Subject: IRIS RUSHING TO RIGHT, HOLDING A CHILD (BABY) [FOR INTERPRETATIONS SEE ABOVE
AND BELOW: THE BABY HERMES?(1)].
CAVI Inscriptions: IN BACK OF IRIS: καλ̣ος̣{2}. TO IRIS' RIGHT, UNDER THE WING: κ(α)(λ)ο(ς){2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} SO BEAZLEY FOLLOWING WATZINGER (1924), 487. C. ROBERT (1920–6), I, 247
HAD SUGGESTED HERACLES. {2} THE LAMBDA OF THE FIRST INSCRIPTION IS IN A BREAK
AND LOOKS MORE LIKE AN IONIC, THAN AN ATTIC, LAMBDA, BUT THAT OF THE SECOND,
WITH THE UPPER HALF MISSING, LOOKS LIKE THE BOTTOM OF ATTIC LAMBDA (WITH A
ROUNDED BOTTOM). THE SIGMAS ARE UNCLEAR.
CAVI Comments: LULLIES: IRIS WITH THE BABY HERACLES.
CAVI Number: 5290
AVI Bibliography: GERHARD (1831), 144/274; — GERHARD (1840–58), II, 15FF., PL. 83 (EIRENE WITH
THE BABY PLUTOS). — JAHN (1847), 111 N. 62 (REJECTED GERHARD'S INTERPRETATION;
PROBABLY IRIS WITH DIONYSUS, HERACLES OR ARKAS). — WELCKER (1851), 247 (EIRENE
WITH PLUTOS RATHER THAN IRIS WITH HERACLES). — BEAZLEY (1933A), NO. 57. — R.
LULLIES, CVA MUNICH 5, GERMANY 20 (1961), PLS. 227,2, 228,2 AND 234,2; P. 22,
FACSS. OF INSCRIPTIONS (MUCH BIBL.). — ARV[2] (1963), 189/76, 1632. — PARA.
(1971), 341. — ADD.[2] (1989), 189.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
