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)
