CAVI Lemma: BF Droop cup. From Koropi. Kallis Painter. Third quarter sixth. 550-540
(Vanderpool){1}.
CAVI Subject: Handle zone: A: head of a woman flanked by heads of two men, between snakes.
B: similar, but the three heads are female.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: to right of bearded male's face, downward: νειονενο, retr. except nu's. To
left of woman's face, downward: κνιο(ν)ι. To right of the top of her head,
horizontal but curved: Καλιτινε, for Καλ[λ]ιτι(μ)ε (Vanderpool). To left of face
of man at right (pointed cap), downward: νε[2-3]ι̣ε, retr. except nu
(differently CVA: οε[.](.)ε.). B: to right of face of left woman, diagonally
down: [(1)-(2)]σ[--]. To left of face of woman in middle: (.)να...{2}. To left
of top of head at right, horizontal: Σιμυλις, retr.{3}. These readings are all
from E.V.; see below for Feytman's readings.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} but see BCH 317 n. 2. {2} so Vanderpool in text (this or the preeding
inscription is given in CVA as: απα[--].). {3} the name also on the fountain
hydria London B 331. Similar heads on Naples Stg. 172 (ABV 203/1) by the same
painter, with names of maenads (Kallis, Sime). Are the names on our cup those of
mortals (as Vanderpool and Beazley seem to imply and LGPN ii prints) or also
Dionysiac? Simylis on London B 331 perhaps argues against the latter.
CAVI Comments: Ex Athens, Private. Attic alphabet. One nu reversed. For the controversy of
the placement of the Kallis Painter in relation to Sakonides or the group of
Lydos, see BCH 318ff. By the same hand as Naples Stg. 172, q.v. C.-F. 325ff.
discusses the subject: she thinks the female on A is Aphrodite, καλλιτι(μ)η
being an epithet; E.V. had her as a nymph. The subject is the Anodos of
Aphrodite (note the snakes). The males are bearded; that at right has an
inscription read by her as hε[ρμε]ς; the other she thinks is Adonis, although
the accompanying inscription is meangless (it has however the same number of
letters as Αδονιος).
CAVI Number: 0928
AVI Bibliography: Vanderpool (1945), 436 ff., figs. 1-6. — Villard (1946), 172 n. 3. — P.N. Ure
(1953), 49 n. 10. — ABV (1956), 203/2. — Para. (1971), 92. — Vacano (1973), A
126 and 128, pp. 228-29. — Boardman (1974), 61. — Callipolitis-Feytmans (1980),
317ff., figs. 1-3 (A, detail of A, B). — D. Callipolitis-Feytmans, CVA Athens 3,
Greece 3 (1986), pl. 39.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
