Inscriptions: Inscription: EDE MEN EDE PLEON PARABEBAKEN ... IO[... Inscription: O ZEU PATER AI[TH]E PLOUSIOS GEN[OIMAN
Attributed To: PLOUSIOS P+ by BOTHMER
Decoration: A: MERCHANTS, SEATED DRAPED YOUTHS, ONE WITH FUNNEL AND LEKYTHOS, AMPHORA (?), PELIKE, DOG, TREE B: MERCHANTS SELLING OIL, DRAPED YOUTHS, ONE WITH STAFF AND DOG, ONE SEATED, AMPHORA
Last Recorded Collection: Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano: 413
Previous Collections:
Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano: 16518
Publication Record: Albizzati, C., Vasi antichi dipinti del Vaticano (Rome, 1925-39): PL.61.413 (A, B) Anastasiadis, V.I. and Doukellis, P.N. (eds.), Esclavage antique et discriminations socio-culturelles, Actes du XXVIIIe Colloque International du Groupement International de Recherche sur l'Esclavage Antique (Mytilene, 5-7 decembre 2003) (Berne, 2005): 133, FIG.4 (B) Archäologischer Anzeiger: 1927, 71, FIG.1, 74, FIG.2 (A, B) Bazant, J., Les citoyens sur les vases atheniens, Rocnik 95 (1985) 2: PL.35.57 (A) Boardman, J., Athenian Black Figure Vases (London, 1974): FIG.212 Boardman, J., The history of Greek vases, potters, painters and pictures (London, 2001): 261, FIG.289 (A) Chatzidimitriou, A., Parastaseis Ergasterion kai Emporiou stin Eikonographia ton Archaikon kai Klasikon Chronon (Athens, 2005): PL.48.E14 (A, B) 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): 62, FIG.2 (DRAWING OF A) Metropolitan Museum Journal: 11 (1976), 74, FIG.8 (PART) Oakley, J.H. et al., Athenian Potters and Painters, The Conference Proceedings (Oxford, 1997): 64, FIGS.2-3 (A, B) Valavanis, P. and Manakidou, E., Egraphsen kai epoiesen. Essays on Greek Pottery and Iconography in Honour of Professor Michalis Tiverios (Thessaloniki, 2014): 197, FIG.4A-B (DRAWING OF A AND B)
CAVI Lemma: BF pelike. Unattributed{1}. Last quarter sixth.
CAVI Subject: A: oil seller. B: oil seller.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: starting to right of the seated seller's middle: Ζεῦ(.) πάτερ, αἴ(θ)ε
πλούσιος γεν[οίμαν]{2}. B: from the mouth of the seller (who is standing at
left): ἔ̅δε̅ μὲν ἔ̅δε̅ πλέον· παραβέβακεν{3}. To the seller's left: ιο[2-3],
retr.(?){4}. Under the foot ΑΡ [[lig.]], retr., Johnston (1979), 133/9E,86.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Bothmer attributes this as the name piece to his `Plousios Painter', see
Revue du Louvre 27 (1977) ca. 216. (Ref. from N. Leipen et al., Glimpses of
Excellence: a Selection of Greek Vases and Bronzes from the Elie Borowski
Collection (exhib. 18 Dec. 1984 - 30 June 1985) 11/under no. 7.) {2} Albizzati's
photo shows a trace of a letter, or blob, by a break after Ζευ; could it be
Ζευς?, nom. for voc.(?). {3} Kretschmer and Albizzati read παρβεβακεν, but A.'s
photo shows παραβεβακεν, a hybrid dialect form; see Milne apud Richter. Perhaps
πλέο̅ν (cf. Robert's alternative) is preferable, sc. ὁ ἀμφορεύς. {4} or Ιφ̣[--,
or [2-3]οι, not retr.(?).
CAVI Comments: C. Robert (1919), 118 thought the two inscriptions are thought, not spoken;
cf. Lissarrague (1992), 201 n. 31. - Robert also thought the letters λο were to
be restored to οκτο, the number of fingers extended, but this is disproved by an
examination of the vase as restored and cleaned, performed by F. Buranelli in
1990 who showed that this inscription, incomplete at the beginning, ends in -οι.
See Lissarrague, n. 32. [The inscription is said to be near the figure on the
right on A; it does not show in the dr., Lissarrague, fig. 14.] - Shapiro
(1997), n. 16 gives a list of BF and RF pelikai showing the sale of oil. - The
theta lacks the dot. The rho is tailed.
CAVI Number: 6994
AVI Bibliography: C. Robert (1881), 81ff. — Kretschmer (1894), 80. — Albizzati (1929), 183, pl.
61. — Richter (1958), 15 and n. 27 (M.J. Milne). — Webster (1972), 61. —
Guarducci (1974), 465-66, fig. 183 (A, B). — AttScr (1990), no. 967. — Shapiro
(1997), 64-65, figs. 2-3 (A, B).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
