Inscriptions on athenian pottery c.
Corpus attic vase inscriptions.
Henry immerwahr s corpus of attic vase inscriptions is an attempt to catalog these inscribed vases.
We also provide informations about the project s prehistory by henry immerwahr protohistory and present and future.
It contains 8 173 entries and is the result of more than sixty years of research.
Emeritus university of north carolina at chapel hill march 12 2009 the idea of a corpus of attic vase inscriptions arose from a conversation i had in the 1940s with my friend henry hoenigswald later professor of linguistics at the university of pennsylvania when.
Home corpus of attic vase inscriptions history by henry r.
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.
Avi s main part is the interactive database.
Corpus of attic vase inscriptions immerwahr henry r.
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.
Painted or incised before firing this corpus of material cannot be held suspect as possible later additions.
Wachter provides a detailed catalogue of the inscriptions together with an epigraphical and linguistic analysis and commentary.
Immerwahr s cavi corpus of attic vase inscriptions.
The inscriptions on non attic vases are an extremely important source for knowledge of ancient greek in particular colloquial language.
Each entry is given a local identifier and indicates which collection the vase belongs to and the inventory number where possible.