CAVI Lemma: BF/WG lekythos. From Attica{1}. Sappho Painter. First quarter fifth. 500-490
(Haspels).
CAVI Subject: A chariot with its charioteer. Athena fighting a giant.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: to right of the charioteer's beard: γσο(.){2}. To right of Athena's
head, extending to the giant's helmet crest: [.]σογ(.)(.)ιονσγ{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} from the same tomb as New York 41.162.30, etc. {2} the bracketed letter
consists of two parallel vertical strokes, characteristic of this painter,
perhaps intended for omicron or gamma. {3} traces are extant of the two
bracketed letters.
CAVI Comments: Ex Gallatin. Many letters are disjointed.
CAVI Number: 5671
AVI Bibliography: Haspels (1936), 225/3. — G.H. Chase and M.Z. Pease, CVA Fogg & Gallatin, USA
8 (1942), pl. 45,2. — ABV (1956), 507/3, 702.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)