CAVI Lemma: BF DROOP CUP. UNATTRIBUTED. THIRD QUARTER SIXTH. 550-530.
CAVI Subject: HANDLE ZONE: A LOTUS FRIEZE. BELOW: AN ANIMAL FRIEZE (SWANS AND HENS).
CAVI Inscriptions: ON THE BG RIM, DIPP.: A: χαιρετε. B: παιδες.
CAVI Comments: EX HIRSCH COLLECTION. THE TWO INSCRIPTIONS MUST BE TAKEN TOGETHER: χαιρετε,
παιδες. CVA SUGGESTS THAT THIS IS PERHAPS THE BEGINNING OF A BANQUET SONG.
POTTIER COMPARES ATHEN. 6.254 (ALEXIS): χαίρετ' ἄνδρες συμπόται, ὅσων ἀγαθῶν τὴν
κύλικα μεστὴν πίομαι (CITED BY JAHN (1854), P. CXI, N. 799). THE VASE WAS FIRST
PUBLISHED IN CVA. THE INSCRIPTIONS IS FAINT. [[DIAMETER: 210 (295).]]
CAVI Number: 6676
AVI Bibliography: BEAZLEY–PAYNE (1929), 271/3=8. — A.D. URE (1932), 57/9 (NOT EXACT). — N.
PLAOUTINE, CVA LOUVRE 9, FRANCE 14 (1938), III H E, PL. 93,6-9 [[INVIS.,
PAINTED, PERHAPS IN WHITE]].
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
