). Although found in Rhodes, it is proved to be of Argive origin by the characteristic form
of the Λ in Menelaos.[[2114]] Although its date cannot be exactly ascertained, it is probably about 620–600 B.C. It is a vase important in more than one respect, as it may be said to foreshadow the beginnings of the black-figure style.
The vase of Aristonoös[[2115]] was found at Cervetri, and bears the artist’s signature,
, Ἀριστόνο<φ>ος ἐποί[η]σεν,
in an alphabet from which, unfortunately, all characteristic letters are wanting, so that its origin is uncertain. It is, however, as we have said, probably a seventh-century product of an Ionian fabric, on the coast of Asia Minor. The 14
halved circle has been taken by several scholars[[2116]] to denote
