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)
