CAVI Lemma: Fr. of cup. Bought in Rome. Near Painter of Agora Chairias Cups (Beazley).
Late sixth (Ashmead–Phillips).
CAVI Subject: Int.: head and arm of a youth tuning his lyre. Ext.: only BG is preserved.
CAVI Inscriptions: Int.: to right of the head: Χα[ιριας].
CAVI Comments: The letters are very messy. The alpha is a triangular blob, the chi is
distorted. For the subject, cf. Louvre MNB 2040, ARV[2] 176/1, by the same
painter. For the letter forms A.&P. compare Berlin 4040, ARV[2] 176/2 (near the
painter).
CAVI Number: 2976
AVI Bibliography: Swindler (1916), ..../2, fig. 20. — ARV[2] (1963), 177/1. — A. Ashmead and K.
Phillips, Jr., CVA Bryn Mawr 1, USA 13 (1971), pl. 5,3. — Para. (1971), 339. —
Add.[2] (1989), 185.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
