CAVI Lemma: RF Nolan amphora From Nola. Probably Painter of Yale Lekythos. Second quarter
fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: Phineus standing in the center and praying to the gods; a table with food;
a scepter behind him. B: woman{1}.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: from Phineus' mouth: θεοι{2}. On the right and below: Χ(α)ρμιδες κ(α)λος.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} CVA thinks she could be Erichtho, Phineus' wife. {2} according to C.
Smith, CIG reads θεῳ.
CAVI Comments: The shape of the alphas is given in C. Smith and ARV[2] without cross bar as
in London E 290 and 292. This seems to be a workshop characteristic.
CAVI Number: 4554
AVI Bibliography: CIG 4 (1855–77), no. 8017. — WV (1869–91), C, pl. 8,1. — Flasch (1880), pl.
12,1. — de Witte (1881), 103 (A). — C.H. Smith in BM Cat. E (1896), 213. — H.B.
Walters and E.J. Forsdyke, CVA London 5, Great Britain 7 (1930), III I c, pl.
48.3a-b. — ARV[2] (1963), 662, middle. — Para. (1971), 404. — Add.[2] (1989),
277.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
