Attic Vase Inscriptions

It contains 8 173 entries and is the result of more than sixty years of research.

Attic vase inscriptions.

Avi attic vase inscriptions attische vaseninschriften is an extended and web based continuation and development of henry r. Inscriptions on athenian pottery c. Begun in 1999 with the conversion of henry immerwahr s data for a corpus of attic vase inscriptions the database has more than 8000 inscriptions and includes updates from rudolph wachter s attic vase inscriptions avi it has now been fully integrated within the main beazley archive pottery database bapd. Emeritus university of north carolina at chapel hill march 12 2009 the idea of a corpus of attic vase inscriptions arose from a conversation i had in the 1940s with my friend henry hoenigswald later professor of linguistics at the university of pennsylvania when.

We also provide informations about the project s prehistory by henry immerwahr protohistory and present and future. Add tags comment rate. Home corpus of attic vase inscriptions history by henry r. Ancient greek pottery due to its relative durability comprises a large part of the archaeological record of ancient greece and since there is so much of it over 100 000 painted vases are recorded in the corpus vasorum antiquorum it has exerted a disproportionately large influence on our understanding of greek society the shards of pots discarded or buried in the 1st millennium bc are.

Immerwahr s cavi corpus of attic vase inscriptions. Henry immerwahr s corpus of attic vase inscriptions is an attempt to catalog these inscribed vases. Each entry is given a local identifier and indicates which collection the vase belongs to and the inventory number where possible. Avi s main part is the interactive database.

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