CAVI Lemma: LEKANE. FROM ATHENS. UNATTRIBUTED. SECOND QUARTER FIFTH. CA. 470-460.
CAVI Subject: TWO BLACK LINES MARK THE HANDLE ZONE; OTHERWISE UNGLAZED EXCEPT FOR THE RIM.
CAVI Inscriptions: GRR.: ON THE INSIDE, IN LARGE LETTERS, UPSIDE DOWN TO THE POT, CIRCULAR AND
IN TWO LINES FACING OUT: Πυθοδορος | καλο[ς]. ON THE UNDERSIDE, IN THREE LINES
OF ABOUT EQUAL LENGTH, HORIZONTAL: Αλ{λ}καιος | καλος· το δο|κει Μελιτι{1}. ON
THE OUTSIDE, UPSIDE DOWN AND CURVING: με φερε{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} LANG (1976), P. 14 PRINTS το, BUT COMMENTS: "το SEEMS TO BE τω; FOR THE
FORM SEE LSJ, S.V. τῳ [`THEREFORE, THEN'; BUT THIS SEEMS TO BE POETIC]."
THREATTE (1996), 340 SUGGESTS THAT ΤΟ IS = τω[ι], `TO SOMEONE'. {2} SO LANG
(1976), WITH THE COMMENT: "THE THIRD LETTER WAS ORIGINALLY READ AS THETA, BUT
COMPARE OTHER THETA-LIKE PHI'S: D 15 [AGORA P 12,212], F 43 [AGORA P 8]."
TALCOTT, READING Μεθερε, COMPARES ACR. II, 1493, Q.V. [WHERE PEEK'S READING IS μ
' εφερε, BUT SHOULD PERHAPS ALSO BE με φερε, DO NOT ..] AND AN UNEXPLAINED
INSCRIPTION CITED BY KRETSCHMER (1894), 200. LANG DOES NOT EXPLAIN WHAT με φερε
MEANS.
CAVI Comments: PYTHODOROS: CF. ACR. II, 1506: Πυθο̣[δορ]ο ειμι. ALKAIOS: KALOS ON BERLIN
2332, BY ACHILLES PAINTER (ARV[2] 988/20); ALSO IN TWO OTHER GRAFFITI, AGORA P
5167 AND 5169; PERHAPS A DIFFERENT MAN FROM THAT OF BERLIN 2332. MELIS: TALCOTT
THINKS A TERM OF ENDEARMENT RATHER THAN A NAME, BUT LANG IN LANG (1976) REFERS
TO SEG 22.237 [LGPN II LISTS UNDER UNACCENTED Μελις, WHICH DOES NOT SETTLE THE
QUESTION WHETHER THE NAME IS MASCULINE OR FEMININE]. TALCOTT GIVES PARALLELS FOR
THE PHRASING: CIG 541: Ιππεος [SIC] καλος Αριστομεδει δοκει (GR. ON AN UNBAKED
TILE). CF. D.M. ROBINSON (1934), 135. RF ALABASTRON, LONDON E 718: Αφροδισια
καλε; AND: τος δοκει Ευχιροι. RF LEKYTHOS IN NAPLES (3135), KRETSCHMER (1894),
109: καλε δοκες. ATTIC ALPHABET. PHI WITH HORIZONTAL BAR.
CAVI Number: 0339
AVI Bibliography: TALCOTT (1935), 512/94, FIG. 25. — TALCOTT (1936), 348/3, FIGS. 10, 17 AND
18. — LANG (1956), 18/74. — ARV[2] (1963), 1561/1. — SPARKES–TALCOTT (1970),
361/1792, PL. 84. — LANG (1976), 13/C 19, PL. 5 (DR.). — THREATTE (1996), 332
AND *340-41.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
