CAVI Lemma: FRAGMENTARY BG OLPE (OINOCHOE). FROM ATHENS. UNATTRIBUTED. EARLY FIFTH.
CAVI Subject: UNDECORATED.
CAVI Inscriptions: ON THE SHOULDER, JUST BELOW THE NECK AND STARTING TO RIGHT OF THE HANDLE,
GR.: μHετριο.
CAVI Comments: A SMALL VASE. THE RHO NEARLY D-SHAPED. LANG READS μηετριο, A MEASURE
(MEDIUM-SIZED JUG, OR REFERRING TO THE CONTENTS, NOT STRONG OR WEAK); HER ETA IS
A MISUNDERSTANDING OF THE COMBINATION MU-HETA (CF. E.G. SPARKES–TALCOTT (1970),
P. 380). SHE DOES NOT DISCUSS THE ENDING, WHICH SEEMS UNLIKELY AT THIS EARLY
DATE, BUT SPARKES–TALCOTT (1970) COMPARES A (POSSIBLY ATTIC) OLPE FROM RHODES
(CLARA RHODOS 3, 111, PL. 3) WHICH HAS THE BG DIP. μεττριο [SIC]. NEVERTHELESS,
A READING ΜHετρ[ο]ιο IS INTRIGUING: THE OLPE WAS FOUND IN A WELL CONTAINING MANY
OLPAE (PERHAPS A CLEANUP FROM A PUBLIC BUIDING, SEE SPARKES–TALCOTT (1970), P.
288, E 14: 5), IN AN AREA TO THE SOUTH OF WHERE THE ARCHAIC METROON WAS PROBABLY
SITUATED, AND THE RHO HAS A SHAPE SOMEWHAT RESEMBLING AN OMICRON. THE OLPE WOULD
HAVE BEEN THE PROPERTY OF THE METROON. A PROPER NAME Μετριος DOES NOT SEEM TO
OCCUR; COMPARE HOWEVER AGORA P 8848, WHICH HAS Α[--] IN THE SAME POSITION ON A
SIMILAR VASE. FOR μH, CF. μHεσ[σ]οι, IG I/3. 1023 = I/2. 837, THREATTE (1996),
330.
CAVI Number: 0396
AVI Bibliography: SPARKES–TALCOTT (1970), 78, N. 12 AND 380. — LANG (1976), 59/HA 1, PL. 32
(DR.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
