CAVI Lemma: BF/WG pyxis with lid. From Athens. Sappho Painter (Haspels){1}. Early fifth.
[Ca. 500].
CAVI Subject: Chariot race: four chariots to right.
CAVI Inscriptions: Imitation inscriptions.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Not mentioned in Beazley.
CAVI Comments: Ex Burgon collection. Haspels cites from notes by Burgon preserved in the
Ashmolean; she also says there are drs. by him there. Burgon praises the quality
of the design and adds: "and tho' the inscriptions under each horse are slight,
this is less the result of haste, than of intended indications." A small vase.
CAVI Number: 4386
AVI Bibliography: H.B. Walters in BM Cat. B (1893), 298. — Haspels (1936), 115, 228/55 (not
ill.; no bibl.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)