Decoration: A: SAPPHO (NAMED) WITH LYRE B: WOMAN IN SAKKOS
Last Recorded Collection: Wuppertal, Von de Heydt-Museum: 49
Previous Collections:
Wuppertal, private, Funcke
Bochum, Ruhr-Universität, Kunstsammlungen: S508
Publication Record: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BOCHUM, KUNSTSAMMLUNGEN DER RUHR-UNIVERSITAT 2, 24, FIGS.6A, 6B, BEILAGE 4.2, PLS.(4170,4174) 18.1-4, 22.2 View Whole CVA Plates Koloski-Ostrow, A.O., and Lyons, C.L., Naked Truths, Women, Sexuality and Gender in Classical Art and Archaeology (London, 1997): 112, FIG.15 (A) Korzus, B. (ed.), Griechische Vasen aus Westfälischen Sammlungen (Münster, 1984): 122, NO.43 (A, B) Yatromanolakis, D., Sappho in the Making, The Early Reception (Cambridge and London, 2007): 89-90, 105, FIGS.4A-B, 7 (A, B, PART OF A) Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik: 152 (2005) 16-30
CAVI Collection: Bochum, Ruhr Universität, Kunstsammlungen S 508.
CAVI Lemma: RF calyx krater. Tithonos Painter (not by Beazley). First quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: woman with lyre to right, looks back (Sappho?). B: woman to right looks
back.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: "Vom Kopf der Musikantin geht rückläufig eine Inschrift aus, die den Namen
Sappho zu enthalten scheint" (Stähler). The same statement in `Symposion' with
the ff. addition: "Ob die Dichterin selbst dargestellt ist oder die Inschrift
nur eine Anrufung der Sappho ausdrücken soll, muss offen bleiben."{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} The ph. in `Symp.' shows the inscription obscurely: Σαφ[φ]ος, retr., with
sigmas facing to right. Uncertain reading. [I think this is not in Threatte
(1980).] [If the last letter is right, and it is gen., then it should be the
name of the girl. Is the inscription ancient?]
CAVI Comments: Ex Wuppertal, Funcke. The woman on B is probably listening to the musician on
A.
