Another metrical inscription runs:
Κηφισοφῶντος ἡ κύλιξ· ἐὰν δέ τις κατάξη δραχμὴν ἀποτείσει· δῶρον ὄν
παρὰ Ξενο....
“I am the cup of Kephisophon; if any one breaks me, let him pay
a drachma; the gift of Xeno(krates).”[[2085]]
A yet more remarkable example is on an early lekythos from Cumae in the British Museum,[[2086]] which, in the manner favoured by modern schoolboys, invokes an imprecation on the head of a thief:
FIG. 171.
Ταταίης ἐμὶ λήϙυθος ὃς δ’ ἄν με κλέφσῃ θυφλὸς ἔσται
“I am Tataie’s oil-flask, and he shall be struck blind who steals me.”