CAVI Lemma: BF lip cup. From Vulci. Unattributed. Third quarter sixth.
CAVI Subject: Lip: A: a siren with outspread wings. B: similar.
CAVI Inscriptions: Handle zone: nonsense: imitation letters: A: well centered: eight imitation
letters: sideways sigma and upright chi are recognizable. B: similar: eight
imitation letters: sideways sigma, upsilon, and upright chi (or near) are
recognizable.
CAVI Comments: The letters are small and unclear. For sirens on lip cups see CVA.
CAVI Number: 5225
AVI Bibliography: Weicker (1902), 157 n. 4. — Hackl (1908), 92. — B. Fellmann, CVA Munich 10,
Germany 56 (1988), pl. 25,1-5, Beilage 7,1. — Vierneisel–Kaeser (1990), figs.
10.15 (A, part) and 12.20 (A).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)