for Χ, and so on. There is also a fifth-century vase with the Boeotian alphabet.[[2131]] The Kabeirion vases have inscriptions in the local alphabet, with a few exceptions, which are Ionic.[[2132]]
A unique vase, from the epigraphical point of view, is E 732 in the Louvre, found at Cervetri, to which allusion has been made elsewhere (Vol. I. p. [357], and see Fig. [111]). It bears eleven names (of gods and giants) in an alphabet which has been recognised as Ionian, and is according to Kretschmer most probably that of the island of Keos. The great uncertainty as to the Ε sounds presented by this vase finds parallels in the stone inscriptions found on that island, while in the use of Β for Ϲ (the older form of that letter), the four-stroke
and
, with a central dot, this attribution finds further support. The only other islands that would fit the conditions are Naxos and Amorgos. As instances of the confused use of Ε, we have
for Ζεύς, but
