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)
