CAVI Lemma: WG lekythos. From Attica. Manner of Achilles Painter{1}. Third quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: Maenad with thyrsus and pomegranate to right before a rectangular base.
CAVI Inscriptions: On the base, just below the top, centered and horizontal in bright red: καλε.
To left there seems to be another inscription, at some distance, at elbow
height, horizontal, hard to read because of distortion: perhaps καλ(ε), but the
last letter does not look right for an epsilon{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} listed by Oakley among vases loosely connected with the Achilles Painter.
{2} καλε, καλε. [So Oakley in cat.]
CAVI Comments: Second white used. The red is also used elsewhere on this vase. Attic
alphabet.
CAVI Number: 5982
AVI Bibliography: Photo. — NNN (1945), Ashmolean Report, pl. 2,e. — ARV[2] (1963), 1003/25,
1677. — Oakley (1997), 168/L 54, fig. 9D (profile) (no ph.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
