CAVI Lemma: FR. OF NECK AMPHORA{1}. FROM ATHENS. UNATTRIBUTED. FIRST QUARTER FIFTH
(VASE). CA. 490.
CAVI Subject: UPPER PART OF THE HEAD OF A MAN WREATHED WITH BRANCHES; AT LEFT, AN UNCERTAIN
OBJECT.
CAVI Inscriptions: ABOVE THE SCENE, IN THE BG FIELD, GR.: [------]ΙΙ.φ[---] [---]Αθεν̣α̣ια[---]
[--- ε]υεργετ̣ην κα̣[ι---] [--- Μ]ελιταιεως αν[---] [---]0 Αγαθιων τον [---]
VACAT{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} RF? {2} SO THE PHOTO.; LANGLOTZ' TEXT DIFFERS SOMEWHAT; IN LINE 1, HE
PRINTS: Η̣Φ, WHICH PEEK CORRECTS INTO NΦ̣. PEEK DERIVES Μελιταιευς FROM
Μελιτεια, A TOWN IN THESSALY. THE ADJ. OF THE DEME Μελιτη IS Μελιτευς. LSJ HAS
Μελιταιος, FROM MALTA, E.G. MALTESE DOG. SEE ALSO PAPE.
CAVI Comments: LANGLOTZ SEEMS TO ASSUME THAT THE GR. IS CONSIDERABLY LATER THAN THE SHERD,
BUT I STRONGLY SUSPECT THAT IT IS FALSE. IT LOOKS MUCH LIKE THE GRR. BY THE
FORGER PUBLISHED BY CORBETT–WOODHEAD (1955), 251FF. - THE ALPHABET IS PECULIAR:
POINTED ALPHA WITH RIGHT DIAGONAL EXTENDED ABOVE AND BELOW. THETA = θ. LAMBDA
`IONIC' WITH CURVED RIGHT HASTA. PHI CIRCULAR WITH VERTICAL EXTENDING ABOVE.
CAVI Number: 1613
AVI Bibliography: GRAEF–LANGLOTZ (1925–33), II, NO. 1417, PL. 91; *PEEK, IBID., 131.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
