| Collection: | Athens, National Archaeological Museum |
| Summary: | Sappho, Kallis, and Nikopolis, with and musical instruments |
| Ware: | Attic Red Figure |
| Painter: | Attributed to the Group of Polygnotos |
| Context: | From Vari |
| Date: | ca. 440 BC - ca. 430 BC |
| Dimensions: | H. 0.39 m; diam. (lip) 0.162 m |
| Primary Citation: | |
| Shape: | Hydria-kalpis |
| Beazley Number: | 213777 |
| Period: | High Classical |
Decoration Description: A female figure standing profile to the right, with her left foot advanced, wearing a himation around her lower body and draped over left shoulder, over a short-sleeved chiton, her bent left arm obscured by the himation, and a narrow taenia, extends a wreath, held in her right hand, with which she crowns Sappho (labelled), seated profile to the right on a klismos, wearing a himation draped around her lower body and over her left shoulder, over a medium-sleeved chiton, her hair in a bun, reading a scroll held with both hands in her lap; a female figure, labelled Kallis, standing near profile to the left, with both legs bent, but her left leg slightly advanced, wearing a himation enveloping her body, over a chiton, and a taenia, rests her left hand (obscured by the himation) on her hip, and holds a lyre in her slightly upraised right hand, to the left; a female figure, Nikopolis (labelled), standing 3/4-view to the left, her right leg slightly advanced, wearing a himation over her left shoulder and draped around her lower body, over a chiton, her bent left arm bundled in the himation (and her left hand on her hip?), rests her right arm on the shoulder of Kallis; another wreath is in the field above her head.
Graffiti: According to Matheson (287) "The scroll is written in the Ionic alphabet; the inscriptions on the unrolled section are written lengthwise while those on the rolled parts are written vertically. Some letters are legible, and the word theoi has been read a
Sources Used: Classical, Mediaeval, and Renaissance Studies in Honor of Berthold Louis Ullmann 1 (Rome 1964) 26; J.D. Beazley, "Hymn to Hermes," AJA 52 (1948) 338; Beazley 1928, 55 n. 5;