CAVI Lemma: FR. OF BG SKYPHOS. FROM AGIA EIRENE (AGHIA IRINI). UNATTRIBUTED. BEGINNING
FIFTH. CA. 500 (JOHNSTON).
CAVI Subject: NO FIGURED DECORATION.
CAVI Inscriptions: ON THE BOTTOM, GR.: ευχσαμηνος / Ανθιππος / Διον[υ]σοι / ανηθ[ε]κην{1}. / την
κυ̣λικα / τηνδη / Hο Ιολιετης{2}. ON THE RESTING SURFACE, A GR., VERY HARD TO
READ: Hοδ ακορεσ{σ}τος καυ[χ]ομενο[ς νικα]ν τοσδη ιτα[μ]ος εστο{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} THE THIRD LETTER IS AN EPSILON CORRECTED TO ETA OR VICE VERSA (DAUX). {2}
IN GENERAL: ETA FOR EPSILON, WHICH SHOULD GIVE EPSILON FOR ETA: BUT THIS IS NOT
THE CASE IN τηνδη OR Ιολιετης; HENCE JOHNSTON PUTS A QUESTION MARK WITH THE
RESTORED EPSILON IN LINE 4. NOTE THE CONFUSION OF ETA AND HETA (MENDONI HAS A
DISCUSSION). {3} THIS READING IS LARGELY DUE TO VANDERPOOL WHOSE NOTES ARE FOUND
IN THE CASKEY ARCHIVE (MENDONI). - FOR THE SECOND WORD OF THE SECOND GRAFFITO
Κορέσσιος MAY BE SUGGESTED; καυχόμενος IS ALMOST CERTAIN (CASKEY IN HESP.).
CASKEY COMPARES BACCHYLIDES FR. 16 JEBB, POXY 1361, FR. 1 (SO DAUX).
CAVI Comments: IN THE MUSEUM AT CHORA ON KEA? - THE FIRST FIVE LINES ARE WRITTEN ACROSS, ONE
UNDER THE OTHER; THE SIXTH LINE IS WRITTEN ALONG THE RIGHTHAND MARGIN, IN A
CURVE; CASKEY THINKS THAT IT WAS AN AFTERTHOUGHT. HE PUTS THIS LINE AT THE END
OF THE MAIN TEXT, MENDONI AS THE CONTINUATION OF LINE 2 [A LATER ADDITION TO
IT?].- MENDONI REFERS TO OTHER INSCRIPTIONS WITH DIONYSUS FROM KEA: SEE CASKEY,
AJA 84 (1980) 200 AND KEOS II.1 (1986) 39-41, PL. 64. M. THINKS THE MAIN GR. (7
LINES) AND THE RIM GR. ARE RELATED, ALTHOUGH WRITTEN BY DIFFERENT HANDS; THE
SECOND HE THINKS REFERS TO A DRINKING CONTEST IN THE SYMPOSIUM. - KEAN ALPHABET.
CAVI Number: 4087
AVI Bibliography: DAUX (1964), 828-30. — J.L. CASKEY (1964), 333-34, PL. 64,A-B. — LAZZARINI
(1973–4), 347, PL. 67,1-2. — JOHNSTON (1990), 466/H, PL. 78,7 (TRANSLITERATION,
P. 419). — MENDONI (1990), 300/5, FIGS. 6 (PH.) AND 7 (DR. BY CASKEY).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
