Decoration: Body: FISHERMEN (?), YOUTHS AND MEN, NETS
Last Recorded Collection: Malibu (CA), The J. Paul Getty Museum: 83.AE.285
Publication Record: Ephemeris Archaiologike: 127 (1988) 115, FIG.4 (PARTS) J. Paul Getty Museum Journal: 12 (1984), 243, NO.59 Moon, W.G. (ed.), Ancient Greek Art and Iconography (Madison, 1983): 148, FIG.10.1A-C Oakley, J.H. (ed.), Athenian Potters and Painters, Volume III (Oxford and Philadelphia, 2014): 33, FIG.6 (PART OF BD) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 4 (BD)
CAVI Lemma: Fragmentary RF psykter. Smikros{1}. Last quarter sixth. 510-500.
CAVI Subject: Sale of must: a youth sitting on a pile of empty baskets, and holding a
purse. A seated man, who probably held out a wineskin, and a boy in a vat. A
seated man holding out a wineskin and a youth. A seated man, perhaps traces of a
vat, and a youth running toward him with an empty wineskin.
CAVI Inscriptions: From the mouth of the youth with the purse: πεντε χοι[δια(?)] and below:
καλα. All retr. From the man's mouth: τρια, retr. From the mouth of the second
youth: τρια τοι{2}. By the wineskin held by the second man: Α[-], retr. Behind
the same man: [-]υτος̣, retr.{3}. Behind the (third) youth: [-]ος καλος{4}.
By the knee of the third seated man: [-]ας, retr.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} but Robertson, in Robertson (1992), does not attribute this and the other
psykter in the Getty (82.AE.53) to Smikros, but to an inferior artist ourside
the circle, because of their poor quality. {2} perhaps a trace of another
letter, then a break. {3} the last letter could be iota, as R. Guy has
suggested; then: ευ τοι. But the words are not spoken. {4} Frel says [Λεαγρ]ος
would fit.
CAVI Comments: Frel's idea that the scene represents fishermen playing a game is disproved
by the wineskins. Malagardis accepts Frel's fishermen but thinks they are
counting their catch.
