Attributed To:Manner of DIOSPHOS P by KURTZ Manner of SAPPHO P by KURTZ PISTIAS CLASS by KURTZ
Decoration: A,B: MUSIC, DRAPED MAN IN HEADDRESS SEATED, PLAYING LYRE (ANAKREONTIC ?)
Last Recorded Collection: Madison (WI), Elvehjem Museum of Art: 1979.122
Publication Record: Boardman, J., The history of Greek vases, potters, painters and pictures (London, 2001): 165, FIG.189 (A) Bulletin of the Elvehjem Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin: (1978-80), 83 (A) Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies: 31 (1990), PL.9A AT P.160 (PART) Moon, W.G. and Berge, L., (eds.), Greek Vase Painting in Midwestern Collections (Chicago, 1979): 122, NO.70
CAVI Collection: MADISON, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, ELVEHJEM MUSEUM 1979.122.
CAVI Lemma: BF/WG MASTOID SKYPHOS. RELATED TO SAPPHO PAINTER AND DIOSPHOS PAINTER;
PISTIAS CLASS M (KURTZ). LAST QUARTER SIXTH. CA. 515 (MOON).
CAVI Subject: A: AN OLD MAN, IN HIMATION AND WITH A SAKKOS IN HIS HAIR, SEATED AND PLAYING
THE LYRE (KITHARA) WHILE SINGING. B: SIMILAR.
CAVI Inscriptions: NONSENSE: IMITATION LETTERS: A: FROM THE MOUTH, IN A LARGE DOWNWARD CURVE:
(H)(σ)ο(θ)(ι)π(.)ποχσι. B: A SIMILAR INSCRIPTION{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} LISSARRAGUE GIVES A LONGER INSCRIPTION THAN THE ABOVE, HENCE IT MAY BE OF
B: HH(δ)(H)ιπισοχσ(.)χσι.
CAVI Comments: THE LETTERS ARE EXCEEDINGLY SLOPPY AND OFTEN ONLY APPROXIMATE. MOON RIGHTLY
THINKS THE INSCRIPTION IMITATES A SONG, WHENCE HE CALLS THE FIGURE A POET.
MOON'S PICTURE OF A IS BETTER THAN HIS PICTURE OF B.
CAVI Number: 4876
AVI Bibliography: MOON (1979), 123/70. — LISSARRAGUE (1990A), 128, FIG. 98 (SKETCH OF A OR B,
AFTER MOON, WITH INSCRIPTION).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
