CAVI Lemma: BF lekythos. Sappho Painter. First quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: Apollo citharoedus, with a doe; four women (Muses) dancing, two with crotala,
one with a lyre, the last playing the flutes.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense, with imitation letters: there is a vertical inscription to the left
of each dancer: 1. πυ(.)υονο̣^υο(.){1}. 2. six letters (3 + 3): υ(ο)(.)ου{2}. 3.
seven letters (1 + 1 + 5, the flutes intervene). I have no record of the fourth
inscription.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} an arm intervenes. But I counted 11 letters in the photo in Queyrel. {2}
this reading is from another photo, on which I saw only 5 letters; Queyrel's
photo shows six.
CAVI Comments: Partly disjointed letters. The women are considered Muses by Queyrel and in
LIMC.
CAVI Number: 6700
AVI Bibliography: Photo. — Haspels (1936), 98, 226[[/7]], pl. 32,2a-b (no. 7). — Wegner (1949),
213. — Zanker (1965), 547 and n. 260. — LIMC ii (1984), pl. 241, Apollon 701a. —
Queyrel (1985), 159, pl. 38,3. — LIMC vi (1992), 663, Mousai 40. —
Kaufman-Samara (1997), 285, fig. 1 (3 views, good for inscriptions).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
