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)
