Decoration: Body: DRAPED MAN PLAYING KITHARA, PALM TREE
Last Recorded Collection: Basel, market, Münzen und Medaillen A.G.
Publication Record: Kunstwerke der Antike, Münzen und Medaillen, A.G., Basel, sale catalogue: 51 (14-15.3.1975), PL.32, NO.145 Lapatin, K. (ed.), Papers on Special Techniques in Athenian Vases, Proceedings of a symposium held in connection with the exhibition The Colours of Clay, Special Techniques in Athenian Vases, at the Getty Villa, June 15-17, 2006 (Los Angeles, 2008): 38, FIG.4 (COLOUR OF PART)
CAVI Lemma: LEKYTHOS IN SIX' TECHNIQUE. SAPPHO PAINTER. FIRST QUARTER FIFTH. CA. 490
(CAHN).
CAVI Subject: BEARDED CITHARODE BEFORE A PALM TREE.
CAVI Inscriptions: BEFORE THE PALM TREE: φ[.]οντοσ{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} CAHN READ Φ[α]οντος, CONSIDERING IT THE NAME OF THE CITHARODE, A SINGER
FOR APOLLO-HELIOS; BUT R. PERRY (BY LETTER) SUGGESTS THAT THE LETTERS ARE
PROBABLY NONSENSE. I AGREE.
CAVI Number: 2151
AVI Bibliography: M&M-AUCTION (1975), PL. 32/145.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
