CAVI Lemma: RF Nolan amphora From Capua. Providence Painter. Second quarter fifth.
470-460.
CAVI Subject: Gigantomachy: A: Zeus. B: a giant fleeing while looking back.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: below Zeus' right elbow: hο π(α)υς{1}. Above his outstretched left arm:
κα(λ)ος. B: above the giant's shield: κ(α)(λ)ος, retr.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} παυς for παις: see Berlin 2331, by the Oionokles Painter.
CAVI Comments: Irregular letter forms. There seems to be a great variety of style and care
in the Providence Painter's inscriptions. For the present writing see Warsaw
142,336 and vases by the Oionokles Painter.
CAVI Number: 2856
AVI Bibliography: A. Greifenhagen, CVA Braunschweig, Germany 4 (1940), 28-29 (facs.), pl. 20. —
ARV[2] (1963), 635/3.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
