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)
