Decoration: Body: WOMEN, ONE WITH LYRE, SAPPHO (NAMED) SEATED ON CHAIR WITH SCROLL
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum: CC1241
Previous Collections:
Athens, National Museum: 1260
Publication Record: Annual of the British School at Athens: 97 (2002) PL.20B (BD) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1060.145 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 445 Bothmer, D. von, The Amasis Painter and his World (Malibu, 1985): 20, FIG.5 (BD) Bundrick, S.D., Music and Image in Classical Athens (Cambridge, 2005): 101, FIG.61 (BD) Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 158 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 323 Immerwahr, H., Attic Script, A Survey (Oxford, 1990): PL.29.120 (PART) Jahrbuch des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien: 13/14 (2011/2012) 233, FIG.13 (COLOUR OF BD) Kaltsas N. (ed.), Agon, Exhibition catalogue (Athens, 2004): 262, NO.146 (COLOUR OF BD) Koloski-Ostrow, A.O., and Lyons, C.L., Naked Truths, Women, Sexuality and Gender in Classical Art and Archaeology (London, 1997): 113, FIG.16 (BD) Maas, M. and Snyder, J.M, Stringed Instruments of Ancient Greece (New Haven, 1989): 109, FIG.22 (PART) Matheson, S.B., Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens (Madison, 1995): 174, PL.149 (PART) Mouseion: 49 (2005) 10, PL.4 (BD) Oakley, J.H. et al., Athenian Potters and Painters, The Conference Proceedings (Oxford, 1997): 289, FIG.6 (DRAWING) Sansone, D., Ancient Greek Civilization, 2nd edition (Oxford, 2009): 154, FIG.41 (BD) Tzachou-Alexandri, O., Mind and Body, Athletic Contests in Ancient Greece (Athens, 1988): 315, NO.201 Yatromanolakis, D., Sappho in the Making, The Early Reception (Cambridge and London, 2007): 147, 155, 157, FIGS.22, 25-26 (BD, PARTS)
CAVI Lemma: RF hydria. From Vari. Group of Polygnotos{1}. 440-430 (Beazley). Third
quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: In the center, a seated woman reading from a book roll. On the left, a
companion holds out a wreath. On the right, another holds out a lyre; a third.
CAVI Inscriptions: Companion on the left: Nικοπολις. Companion with lyre: Καλλις. The third
companion is not inscribed. The reader: Σαππως = Σαππους. On the roll, vertical
on the rolled up parts: επεα and πτεροε[ν]τα. On the sheet: θεοι. ηερι|ων vac.
|επε|ων v. |αρχ|ομ|αι Α|ΙN?Λ̣|N?Τ|ΤΙ|N. The last word miswritten for αειδειν.
CAVI Comments: Mixed alphabet. Lines l-6 on the roll are stoich. The last word is
miswritten. M. 289 argues against Williams' view that female musicians must be
professionals and hetairai and thinks they are respectable women. Threatte 259
discusses the gen. form Σαππως, which may be for Σαπ(φ)ως or for Σαπ(φ)ους, with
omega for ou.
CAVI Number: 0764
AVI Bibliography: V.Pol. (1928), 9-10 and n. 2 (text on the book roll). — Beazley (1948), 337.
— ARV[2] (1963), 1060/145. — Immerwahr (1964), 26/l8, fig. 2 (bibl.). — Para.
(1971), 445. — Beck (1975), pl. 74/366. — Add.[2] (1989), 323. — Maas–Snyder
(1989), 90. — AttScr (1990), no. 664, fig. 120 (phot.). — Matheson (1995), 167,
*287 and n. 88, 289, 480/PGU 171, pl. 149. — Threatte (1996), 259.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
