CAVI Lemma: BF skyphos. From Tanagra. Unattributed; Ure's Class of Skyphoi A 2 (so CVA).
Last quarter sixth. Ca. 510 (CVA).
CAVI Subject: A, B, each: handle zone: departure of warriors: in the center, an old man,
seated; on each side, a woman and a warrior.
CAVI Inscriptions: Grr.: on the BG lip: A: near the left handle: Αρ[]. Above a woman to the left
of the seated man: Αριστοκρα[τες]. B: above the right-hand pair of figures:
Αρ[]. In front of the left-hand woman: Α[]{1}. On the bottom of the Int.:
Αριστ[]{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} not visible in the ph. {2} CC has Αριστοκρια. Note that the readings in
CVA differ from CC.
CAVI Comments: Inscrr.no doubt Boeotian. Tailed rho. Reversed three-stroke sigma. Ex
Archaeological Society. The vase listed as Attic in CVA.
CAVI Number: 0705
AVI Bibliography: Collignon–Couve (1902–4), no. 794. — Papaspyridou (1922), 58, fig. 4. — M.
Pipili, CVA Athens 4, Greece 4 (1993), pls. 24,1-2, and 26,1; fig. 8,1
(profile); p. 35 (facs.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
