CAVI Lemma: BF LEKYTHOS. NEAR SAPPHO PAINTER; LITTLE-LION CLASS. LATE SIXTH. CA. 500
(CAHN).
CAVI Subject: THREE WOMEN PREPARING FOR A DINNER: AT LEFT, A SEATED WOMAN BUSIES HERSELF
WITH THINGS ON A TABLE; IN FRONT OF IT, A STANDING WOMAN; AT RIGHT, A SEATED
WOMAN HOLDS OUT A LARGE SKYPHOS.
CAVI Inscriptions: NONSENSE: BETWEEN THE TWO LEFT WOMEN: (.)ι̣τστι. ABOVE THE RIGHT EDGE OF THE
TABLE AND THE RIGHT-HAND WOMAN'S KNEE, IRREGULAR: (.)λτσι. ABOVE THE SKYPHOS AND
THE RIGHT-HAND WOMAN'S SHOULDER: λτιστ.
CAVI Comments: EX HIRSCHMANN AND FLEISCHMAN COLLECTIONS. THE READINGS OF THE FIRST TWO
INSCRIPTIONS ARE NOT QUITE CERTAIN. THE INSCRIPTIONS ARE TYPICAL OF THE SAPPHO
PAINTER.
CAVI Number: 4107
AVI Bibliography: M&M-LIST (1964), 46/79 (ILL.). — PARA. (1971), 247 AND 252. — SOTHEBY (1993),
NO. 21. — PINGIATOGLOU (1994), 41 AND N. 6, PL. 17,1-2.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
