CAVI Lemma: FRAGMENTARY BG CUP. FROM ATHENS. UNATTRIBUTED. LATE SIXTH OR EARLY FIFTH.
CAVI Subject: UNDECORATED.
CAVI Inscriptions: ON THE OUTSIDE WALL OF THE BOWL, UPSIDE DOWN, GR. IN A CIRCLE, FACING OUT:
Μ̣[ενε]κρατες [κ]αλος και φιλος Λυσικλει̣. VAC.{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} THE FR. WITH -κρατες IS MISPLACED. {2} MIXED ALPHABET? LANG NOTES THAT
THE IONIC LAMBDAS IN φιλος Λυσικλει SUGGEST THAT THE LAST THREE WORDS WERE ADDED
BY A SECOND HAND. HOWEVER, THE STYLE OF LETTERING CHANGES ONLY IN THE LAST TWO
WORDS; PERHAPS A DIFFERENT ENDING HAD BEEN PLANNED.
CAVI Comments: THE MUSEUM CARD SUGGESTS N[ικο]κρατες, A LESS COMMON NAME.
CAVI Number: 0578
AVI Bibliography: MUSEUM CARD. — LANG (1976), 12/C 7, PL. 4{1}.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
