Abstract
This study of the vase inscriptions of Sophilos, the Attic black-figure painter active around 580 BCE, offers linguistic explanations for several problematic spellings that have previously been misunderstood as illiterate mistakes or products of dialect interference. The examples in question are better characterized as non-standard, quasi-phonetic spellings, some of which show precocious changes in the historical phonology of the Attic dialect. An epigraphic addendum follows the article.
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