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Oxford G 138, 3
Fragment of red-figure cup by Onesimos
ARV(2) 326.93
About 480 bce.
On the left, a bearded man tries out his flutes. In the center a youth seated and holding an open roll, on which, stoichedon and boustrophedon: STESIKHORON HUMNON / AGOISAI. The last letter is more widely spaced and the letter forms of the retrograde line show that the painter had some trouble with this kind of writing. Meter perhaps a dactylo-epitrite ( - u u - - - u - - ): hence no doubt a piece of choral-lyric poetry, despite the Attic-Ionic form of the first word. On the right, a hand writing on a tablet, perhaps taking dictation from the central figure. Other inscriptions: . . . OS, and HOPAIS KAL[os]. Beazley, CVA, notes that a man may have been dictating also on the interior. (Paraphrased from Immerwahr: 1964, pp. 19-20)
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