Decoration: A: MERCHANT (OLD MAN) WITH REED IN AMPHORA SEATED ON BLOCK (WITH NET ?), WOMAN B: DOGS FIGHTING, AMPHORAE, LEKYTHOI, DRAPED YOUTH WITH STICK, STOOL
Last Recorded Collection: Florence, Museo Archeologico Etrusco: 72732
Publication Record: Archeo, Attualita di Passato: 158, APRIL 1998, 64 (COLOUR OF B) Capecchi, G. et al., In memoria di Enrico Paribeni (Rome, 1998): PL.36 (A, B) Chatzidimitriou, A., Parastaseis Ergasterion kai Emporiou stin Eikonographia ton Archaikon kai Klasikon Chronon (Athens, 2005): PL.49.E15 (A, B) Esposito, A.M. and Tommaso, G. (eds.), Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze, Vasi Attici (Firenze, 1993): 45, FIG.57 (COLOUR OF A) Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 881, NO.1264 (A) Lang-Auinger, C. and Trinkl, E. (eds.), Griechische Vasen als Medium für Kommunikation. Ausgewählte Aspekte. Akten des internationalen Symposiums im Kunsthistorischen Museum Wien, 5.-7. Oktober 2017. CVA Österreich, Beiheft 3 (Vienna, 2021): 159, FIG.2 (COLOUR OF A) Matheson, S.B. and Pollitt, J.J., Old Age in Greek and Roman Art (Yale, 2022): 228, APP.106 (COLOUR OF A) Oakley, J.H. (ed.), Athenian Potters and Painters, Volume III (Oxford and Philadelphia, 2014): 200, FIG.8 (B) Oakley, J.H., A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases (Madison, 2020): 63, FIGS.2.18A-B (A, B) Revue Archéologique: 1926, 288-90, FIGS.4-5 (DRAWINGS OF A, B) Scheibler, I., Griechische Töpferkunst, Herstellung, Handel und Gebrauch der antiken Tongefässe (Munich, 1983): 19, FIG.7 (B) Scheibler, I., Griechische Töpferkunst, Herstellung, Handel und Gebrauch der antiken Tongefässe, 2nd ed. (Munich, 1995): 19, FIG.7 (B)
CAVI Lemma: BF PELIKE. ANTIMENEAN{1}. CA. 500 (SCHEIBLER).
CAVI Subject: A: BEARDED OIL SELLER SITTING ON A BASKET(?), WITH A STICK IN A PELIKE,
GESTICULATING TO A WOMAN CUSTOMER. B: BEARDED OIL SELLER AT A STOOL WARDING OFF
WITH A STICK TWO DOGS ATTRACTED BY A GROUP OF LEKYTHOI AND A PELIKE.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: FROM THE MAN'S MOUTH: κ(α)λον ε(ι)[1-2(?)]{2}. B: TO RIGHT OF MAN'S UPPER
BODY (IT ISSUES FROM THE MOUTH OF THE SELLER): κ(.)ναμ̣εμι̣{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} NOT IN BEAZLEY. {2} TRIANGULAR ALPHA. THE END OF THE INSCRIPTION IS QUITE
DOUBTFUL; THE PH. SEEMS TO SHOW A RESTORATION FOLLOWING THE BRACKETED IOTA. {3}
VERY UNCERTAIN READING (THE SURFACE IS DIRTY).
CAVI Comments: I DO NOT THINK THE INSCRIPTIONS ARE NONSENSE, THOUGH THEY ARE PROBABLY PARTLY
MISWRITTEN. ON A THE SELLER IS PRAISING THE OIL.
CAVI Number: 3587
AVI Bibliography: WAELE (1926), 1, 288, FIG. 4. — SCHEIBLER (1983), 19, FIG. 7 (B). —
ESPOSITO–DE TOMMASO (1993), 45/57 (A). — SHAPIRO (1997), 65 AND NN. 16 AND 27.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
