CAVI Lemma: BF lekythos. From Eretria. Cactus Painter; Class of Athens 581. Late sixth.
CAVI Subject: Youth pursued by two snakes.
CAVI Inscriptions: In a loop made by a snake: three-stroke sigma. At the bottom of the scene, at
left and right, a single omicron. Below the loop: another omicron; i.e., ο^σ,
downward. At right, under the youth's legs: ο^σ, horizontal, a branch
intervening. There was probably more.
CAVI Comments: On σο: Haspels on p. 150 n. 2 cites the form as an example of real nonsense
letters giving the illusion of words. The inscription occurs on the Cactus
Painter's vases with characters being in distress, but she would not connect it
with σως (`I wish I were safe!').
CAVI Number: 0896
AVI Bibliography: Haspels (1936), 62 and 198/6, pl. 18,5. — ABV (1956), 505, bottom (mention).
— Prag (1985), pl. 28,d. — Add.[2] (1989), 126.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
