for Πολυβώτη[ς, while again Ἐφιάλτης appears as
! But this confusion does not occur in Naxos or Amorgos.
Other vases are undoubtedly of Ionic origin, but their actual home is uncertain; they are usually assigned to the coast of Asia Minor. For some reason, however, it is very rare for these vases to bear inscriptions; in all the numerous instances now collected, only some half-dozen with inscriptions can be found.[[2133]] One of these is the well-known Würzburg kylix with Phineus and the Harpies (see Vol. I. p. [357]); another is a vase from Vulci, published by Gerhard,[[2134]] which has since disappeared. On both of these we find the characteristic Ionic letters Ω for ω, Η for η, Χ for χ, Λ for λ, and
with four strokes. Both vases are of the sixth century, and other details attest their Ionic origin.
We now come to a very important but somewhat puzzling class of inscriptions, those in the Chalcidian alphabet.[[2135]] The number of these is hardly more than a dozen, but such as they are they have enabled archaeologists to establish a Chalcidian school of painting by comparisons with other uninscribed vases. In all cases the inscriptions relate exclusively to the figures in the designs. Among the characteristic Chalcidian letters are the Ϙ for Κ, as in
(Κλύτιος); the curved Ϲ for Γ, as in
