Sappho's Book as depicted on an Attic Vase1

J. M. Edmonds

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Sappho's Book as depicted on an Attic Vase1

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The fifth-century vase numbered 1260 in the collection of the National Museum at Athens and 1241 in the Catalogue of Collignon and Couve represents Sappho seated reading from a roll to three women, one of whom (left) holds a wreath over Sappho, and another (right) holds out a lyre towards her. By the kindness of the Director of the British School I have recently been able to study the inscriptions on the roll in enlarged photographs, and also to avail myself of the result of a very careful examination which he made of the vase in company with Dr. Leonardos in December, 1919. The vase is published in Mus. Ital. II. 64 (Reinach, Répertoire I. 526, cf. Farnell, Greek Lyric Poetry, PI. ii.). In the rough representation of the roll given here, the gaps in the lines indicate the places where the roll is obscured by the hands which, hold it.

Type: Research Article
Information: The Classical Quarterly , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , January 1922 , pp. 1 - 14

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009838800001944 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Classical Association 1922

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^{page 1 note 2} See the examples collected by Birt, in Die Buchrolle in der Kunst, pp. 148 sqqGoogle Scholar.

^{page 2 note 1} Leipzig, 1912.

^{page 2 note 2} Experts naturally differ as to the exact decade, but it is apparently somewhere round about 430.

^{page 3 note 1} This is not reproduced in the rough representation given above.

^{page 3 note 2} Gritch. Vaseninschriften, Gütersloh, , 1894Google Scholar.

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^{page 4 note 1} This inconsistency has its parallel, as Mr. A. B. Cook kindly points out, in the quasiBoeotian literary inscription on the third-century South-Italian vase depicted by Millingen ii. 36 (Kretschmer, p. 224), which has ¿ºλάϰην (for ¿ºλάϰην) beside Oἰδιπóδαν.

^{page 4 note 2} Sen. Ep. 88. 37.

^{page 4 note 3} Maunde-Thompson, , Palaeogr.² p. 47Google Scholar.

^{page 5 note 1} Cf. Kock on Cratin. 235.

^{page 7 note 1} Note by the way that if this was the second stanza, which it might well be, the first stanza would be occupied by the ‘kletic’ opening, perhaps that of which we have the first line in fr. 6,

AΙ σε Kúπροs ĸɑі πάøος ĥ πάѵορµος where Bergk's каῖ πάøος for ĥ πάøος is necessitated by the context, and αĺ is my emendation of another ĥ in view of a passage of the rhetorician Menander (Walz 9. 136) on kletic hymns: ‘One may summon the Gods from many places at once, as we find done frequently in Sappho and Alcman.’

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^{page 9 note 2} Phot, . Bibl. cod. 279, p. 531b. 15Google Scholar.

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^{page 9 note 4} See Bergk, , P.L.G. ⁴ 3, p. 82Google Scholar; Wilamowitz, , Textgeschichte d. Gr. Lyr. p. 71Google Scholar.

^{page 9 note 5} Ad Verg. G. 1. 31.

^{page 10 note 1} I substitute however ĥ πì for his ĥσσοѵ δ кαі πì and do not add a second πì тѵ ποιŋµάτωѵ.

^{page 12 note 1} 2. 135.

^{page 12 note 2} Rhet. I. 9.

^{page 12 note 3} E.g. Ath. 10. 450e, 13. 572c, 8. 339c, 13, 599d.

^{page 12 note 4} Ath. 13. 599c.

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^{page 13 note 1} Marm. Par. 36.

^{page 13 note 2} See Hdt. 2. 135, 154, 178.

^{page 13 note 3} See Petrie, Flinders and Gardner, E. A., Naukratis, i. p. 4, ii. p. 72Google Scholar; Hogarth, D. G., J.H.S. 1905, p. 106Google Scholar.

^{page 14 note 1} According to Strabo (801) there was apparently an intermediate stage in the migration, Naukratis itself, but his account differs from that of Herodotus.

^{page 14 note 2} Breasted, , Ancient Records of Egypt, 4. 284Google Scholar.

^{page 14 note 3} 5, 58.

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