CAVI Lemma: RF cup. From Vulci. Unattributed{1}. Euergides, potter. Last quarter sixth.
Ca. 520.
CAVI Subject: Int.: a young cup bearer at a column krater, about to decant wine into a cup.
A: three seated youths (two on blocks, one on a stool): that at left stretches
out his hands and holds a short stick (so Pöhlmann; I cannot see it); the
central youth holds his staff; the youth at right looks into opened tablets. B:
komos: three youths with skyphoi, one with an oinochoe.
CAVI Inscriptions: Int.:starting above the krater, along the margin: hο παις καλος. A: hο παις
καλος, ναιχι. B: hο παις καλος, ναιχι{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} one of the cups that mingle Epeleian elements with Euergidean (Beazley).
{2} Pöhlmann's readings; for A, confirmed by V.&K.
CAVI Comments: Compare Munich 2608. Pöhlmann interprets A as a singing lesson: the left
youth holds the stick that was used to appoint singers at symposia (see WJbb 18
n. 77): he is having his turn; that at right is checking his song in the tablets
(he will be next). The scene is an outdoor lesson. Pöhlmann thinks this the
earliest school scene.
