History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 2 (of 2)

by H. B. Walters; Samuel Birch

[2119]. Roberts (Gk. Epigraphy, i. p. 134) distinguishes three periods in the Corinthian alphabet from 700 to 400 B.C., but the vases seem to belong almost entirely to the first, down to 550 B.C.

[2120]. Vol. I. p. [316], Fig. [90].

[2121]. Cat. 1655: see Vol. I. p. [319].

[2122]. Louvre E 600 = Reinach, i. 395.

[2123]. B.M. A 1080 = Reinach, i. 306.

[2124]. Athens 620 = Reinach, i. 394.

[2125]. Roehl, I.G.A. 20, 5.

[2126]. Ibid. 20, 63.

[2127]. E 638 = Mon. dell’ Inst. 1855, pl. 20. It has been suggested that the name is originally a corruption of Alexandra = Xandra = Ksandra = Kesandra (Kretschmer, p. 28).

[2128]. The general peculiarities of the Corinthian alphabet are not touched on here, as examples have been given of all characteristic letters. See Roberts, Gk. Epigraphy, i. p. 134.