CAVI Lemma: BF oinochoe (olpe). Painter of Nicosia Olpe (Cahn){1}. Third quarter sixth.
Ca. 540-530 (Cahn).
CAVI Subject: An erotic scene: a man wooing a boy holding two wreaths; between them, a dog;
at left, a youth brings a live hare; at right, another youth. All figures are
naked.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: partly imitation letters: between the boy and the youth at right,
some letters kion.: (σ)(.)(.)ϝ^ε(ο)υ(σ)(.)ϝ(ο)σ.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} not in Beazley. Actually Cahn attributed the olpe to the Painter of
Louvre F 28, an early phase of the Painter of the Nikosia Olpe.
CAVI Comments: Ex New York, Emmerich; probably ex Basel Market (M.M.), or ex Zürich Market.
Very uncertain reading from a good ph.; the hand of the right youth intervenes.
CAVI Number: 7818
AVI Bibliography: Emmerich Gallery (1968), 12/10 (ill.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
