CAVI Lemma: RF POINTED AMPHORA. FROM VULCI. COPENHAGEN PAINTER. FIRST QUARTER FIFTH.
CAVI Subject: A: DIONYSUS MAKING A LIBATION WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF A NYMPH. B: TWO NYMPHS
HOLDING FLOWERS.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: TO RIGHT OF THE NYMPH'S MIDDLE: Nυνφαια. BETWEEN THE FIGURES: Hο παις
καλος. TO LEFT OF DIONYSUS' MIDDLE, RETR.: Διονυσος. B: BETWEEN THE NYMPH'S
UPPER BODY, RETR.: Καρτον καλος. LOWER DOWN: καλε, ναιχι{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} NOT IN SMITH'S DR., NOR IN CVA'S PHOTO. SHOULD REFER TO ONE OF THE
NYMPHS.
CAVI Comments: THREATTE (1996), REFERRING TO SMITH'S CAT. III, P. 234, THINKS Nυνφαια IS
HERE A NAME FOR ARIADNE, AND NOT AN ALTERNATIVE FOR νυμφη. DOTTED DELTA. ATTIC
ALPHABET WITH SOME FOUR-STROKE SIGMAS.
CAVI Number: 4574
AVI Bibliography: C.H. SMITH IN BM CAT. E (1896), 234-35, PLS. 13 (DR. OF A) AND 18,1 (DRS. OF
B, SHAPE). — C. FRäNKEL (1912), 44, 92/F. — H.B. WALTERS, CVA LONDON 3, GREAT
BRITAIN 4 (1927), III I C, PL. 18. — RE XVII/2 (1937), S.V. NYMPHAI (HERTER [[F.
HEICHELHEIM?]]). — ARV[2] (1963), 256/2. — ADD.[2] (1989), 204. —
KOSSATZ-DEISSMANN (1991), 185 (NYMPHAIA 1, BIBL.). — THREATTE (1996), 59.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)