, “This is the grave of Areios.”[[2193]] In a representation of Sappho reading from her poems, she holds an open roll, on which are visible the words Θεοί, ἠερίων ἐπἐων ἄρχομαι ἄλλ[ων] ... ἔπεα πτερόεντα[[2194]]; and in the well-known school-scene on the Duris vase in Berlin[[2195]] a teacher holds a roll, on which are the words (in Aeolic dialect, and combined from the openings of two distinct hymns):
| Μοῖσά μοι | |
| ἀ(μ)φὶ Σκάμανδρον | |
| ἐύρ(ρ)ων ἄρχομαι | |
| ἀεί<ν>δειν.[[2196]] |
A small fragment of a red-figure kylix (?) of fine style, found at Naukratis in 1899 (and now in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford),[[2197]] has a similar scene of a dictation lesson. A seated figure unrolls an inscribed scroll, on which is the boustrophedon legend, στησίχορον ὕμνον ἄγοισαι, while another figure, of which the right hand alone remains, is writing on a tablet (Fig. [177]).
FIG. 177. FIGURE WITH INSCRIBED SCROLL.
In a very puzzling scene on a R.F. vase of fine style, generally supposed to have some reference to the Argonautic expedition, one figure holds up an object inscribed with the name
.[[2198]] This object has generally been interpreted as a tessera hospitalis, or “letter of introduction,” as we should say.
Lastly, there is the class of Panathenaic vases with their inscriptions.[[2199]] They fall into two groups: (1) the words
