CAVI Lemma: WG lekythos. Achilles Painter (Sommer). 450-445 (Oakley).
CAVI Subject: Two women. The phs. show: remains of a woman seated to right on a stool and
holding a plemochoe; above and behind her, at the top, a mirror hung up; traces
of a standing woman, with an offering tray; above and behind her, at the top, an
oinochoe hung up.
CAVI Inscriptions: In the middle between the figures, below the top margin, horizontal stoich.
three-liner with the second line centered: Τιμοδημος | καλος | [..]παγητο̅{1}.
......... ..... //...... or: /......
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Oakley, p. 11 n. 4, restores the gen. of Επαγητος, an Eretrian name,
although he says that the tabella format suggests "one or two" missing letters
at the beginning. But if the third line is centered like the second, [Ε]παγετο̅
can stand. If, however, line three is left-aligned, there are perhaps other
possibilities, although the ph. does not show a trace of a letter to the left of
the break in which the second missing letter is lost. I note that the gamma has
a wavy horizontal and wonder if it is not a rho of shape S 5 in the chart
published in AttScr. Hence perhaps [Ελ]παρετο̅; the name is found on a BF hydria
in Boston, 01.8058, CAVI 2713, as a kalos-name. If a gamma, perhaps
[Ελ]παγητος(?). Oakley mentions also Ιππαγητος and Υπαγητος, but rejects them as
not being found in Attica.
CAVI Comments: Much broken and the surface rubbed off. The inscriuption is better preserved
than the figures, which makes one wonder if it has not been redrawn (although
the letter forms resemble those used by the Achilles Painter); this might
explain a possible confusion of gamma and rho, and the peculiar tau which
resembles an upsilon (Y). For the name Timodemos see ARV[2] (1963), 1610 (Cab.
Méd. 508, CAVI 6145)); LGPN ii, s.v. - Ionic alphasbet. The writing is not very
regular. - Sommer is unidentified.
CAVI Number: 7520a
AVI Bibliography: Oakley (1997), 11 and n. 4, 140/195, pl. 105B-D (both show inscription).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
