CAVI Lemma: WG lekythos. From Gela. Providence Painter. Second quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: A woman running with an oinochoe and phiale; a taenia.
CAVI Inscriptions: Below the taenia, a two-liner: Ελαιον | καλος. For Ευαιον(?).
CAVI Comments: The same inscription occurs on Lyons E 413 (ARV[2] 643/116), at which Beazley
remarks: "The name may be Euaion, although in both vases the second letter of
the name is written like a lambda." On p. 1579, he keeps both vases under
Euaion, but states: "I have kept nos. 1 and 2 under Euaion, but ... Elaion,
which Orsi [in Mon. Linc.] read in no. 1 [Syracuse 21,146], is a possible name."
Fairbanks also read Euaion. Ελαιων is not in PA, Pape or LGPN ii, but note the
deme Ελαιους. Euaion is perhaps rather early to be found in the Providence
Painter.
CAVI Number: 7550
AVI Bibliography: Orsi (1906), pl. 24,1. — Fairbanks (1907), Group B, Class 4, Series 1/5 (not
ill.). — ARV[2] (1963), 642/115. — Para. (1971), 400. — Add.[2] (1989), 274.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
