January 2009 this corpus is based on notes taken over the years from publications and illustrations with some autopsy where possible.
Corpus attic vase inscriptions.
Henry immerwahr s corpus of attic vase inscriptions is an attempt to catalog these inscribed vases.
Begun in 1999 with the conversion of henry immerwahr s data for a corpus of attic vase inscriptions the database has more than 8000 inscriptions and includes updates from rudolph wachter s attic vase inscriptions avi it has now been fully integrated within the main beazley archive pottery database bapd.
Home corpus of attic vase inscriptions history by henry r.
Inscriptions on athenian pottery c.
It contains 8 173 entries and is the result of more than sixty years of research.
Corpus of attic vase inscriptions immerwahr henry r.
Avi s main part is the interactive database.
Each entry is given a local identifier and indicates which collection the vase belongs to and the inventory number where possible.
The inscriptions on non attic vases are an extremely important source for knowledge of ancient greek in particular colloquial language.
We also provide informations about the project s prehistory by henry immerwahr protohistory and present and future.
Avi attic vase inscriptions.
Wachter provides a detailed catalogue of the inscriptions together with an epigraphical and linguistic analysis and commentary.
Painted or incised before firing this corpus of material cannot be held suspect as possible later additions.
I am aware of the fact that a real corpus should be based mainly on direct examination of the documents but in the case of pottery scattered as it is over.