CAVI Lemma: BF lekythos. Sappho Painter. Late sixth.
CAVI Subject: Peleus and Thetis with Chiron and a dog; on each side a fleeing Nereid.
CAVI Inscriptions: The photos. show five inscriptions. Nonsense, partly imitation: to left of
the left-hand Nereid: at least 6-7 letters; below her outstretched arm along her
left side: 8 letters. To Peleus' left, at mid-height: 6 letters; on Thetis'
right: 8 letters(1); along Chiron's head and back: 8-9 letters; to left of
right-hand Nereid: 8 letters; to right of her head: 4 letters.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} this shows in fig. 2b, which is larger, but the writing is curiously
unclear except that it seems to end in ...χεος.
CAVI Comments: Not in Beazley. Haspels 98: the lekythos shows influence of the Diosphos
Painter[that is also right for the inscriptions]: slender shape; attitudes of
fleeing Nereids; letters of inscriptions close together.
CAVI Number: 6651
AVI Bibliography: Baur (1912), 107/259. — Haspels (1936), 76 n. 7, 94 n. 2, 98, 226/11, pl.
33,2a-c (show inscriptions, but not all clearly).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
