CAVI Lemma: BF NECK AMPHORA. FROM CERVETERI. PAINTER N. NIKOSTHENES, POTTER. CA. 530-520.
CAVI Subject: BELLY: AN ANIMAL FRIEZE.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: A SPHINX IS UNDER THE LEFT HANDLE: THE INSCRIPTION IS DOWNWARD ALONG THE
WING AND THEN HORIZONTAL ALONG THE BOTTOM AND BETWEEN A LION'S LEGS: Nικοσθενες
εποιεσεν{1}. UNDER THE FOOT, GRR.: CVA GIVES ιλναιαλ, RETR., IN THE TEXT, AS AN
INCOMPLETE ETRUSCAN GR. NSC. GIVES "IN FONDO AL CAVO DEL PIEDE": ΣΟ{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} THE THETA IS DOTTED NORMALLY AND NOT = PHI AS GIVEN IN THE TEXT OF CVA.
{2} THIS IS THE ONLY GR. MENTIONED IN JOHNSTON (1979), UNDER THIS NUMBER.
CAVI Number: 7144
AVI Bibliography: G.Q. GIGLIOLI, CVA VILLA GIULIA 3, ITALY 3 (1927), III H E, PL. 23,1-4 AND
24,3. — NOGARA (1937), 424/78/2 AND 434/78 (THE GR.). — ABV (1956), 221/42. —
JOHNSTON (1979), 81/21A 45. — ATTSCR (1990), NO. 1001.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
