Decoration: A: TRIPTOLEMOS DEPARTING, PERSEPHONE WITH SCEPTRE, HADES (PLOUTOS, OLD), DEMETER WITH TORCH AND SCEPTRE (ALL NAMED) B: MERCHANT SELLING OIL, MAN (NAMED) WITH AMPHORA, YOUTH, ATHENA (NAMED), OLIVE TREE
Last Recorded Collection: Piraeus, Archaeological Museum: 343
Previous Collections:
Trachones, Geroulanos: 343
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1154.38BIS Clinton, K., Myth and Cult, The Iconography of the Eleusinian Mysteries (Stockholm, 1992): 202, FIGS.67-70 (A, B) Distler, S.A., Bauern und Banausen, Darstellungen des Handwerks und der Landwirtschaft in der griechischen Vasenmalerei (Wiesbaden, 2022): PL.44.6 (B) Greco, E., Topografia di Atene. Sviluppo urbano e monumenti dalle origini al III secolo d.C. (Athens, 2014): VOL.4, 1291, FIG.783 (A) Gymnasium: 70 (1963) PL.13 Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts: 102 (1987) 69, FIG.5 (A, B) Kaza-Papageorgiou, K., The Ancient City Road and the Metro beneath Vouliagmenis Avenue (Athens, 2016): 37, FIG.56 (COLOUR OF B) Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 854, NO.507 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.212, HADES 29 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: SUPPLEMENTUM 1, PL.47, ATHENA ADD.2 (A, PART OF A) Valavanis, P. and Manakidou, E., Egraphsen kai epoiesen. Essays on Greek Pottery and Iconography in Honour of Professor Michalis Tiverios (Thessaloniki, 2014): 374, FIG.1 (B)
CAVI Lemma: RF amphora. From Trachones. Dinos Painter. Last quarter fifth. 420-410.
CAVI Subject: A: fragmentary: Persephone with a scepter; upper portion of a white-haired
Hades (Plouton); upper portion of Demeter with a torch and scepter. B: sale(?)
of sacred oil: a young servant holding an amphora; an olive tree; a bearded
servant pouring from an amphora into a small amphora standing on the ground;
Athena.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: Φερρεφαττα. Πλουτων. B: Αλκιμος (the seller). Trace of inscription.
Αθηναα.
CAVI Comments: B: Finck suggests delivery of sacred oil for the Panathenaea. Scheibler notes
that the amphora into which the oil is poured is small and suggests it functions
as a measure. Geroulanos suggests a yearly gift by the farmers for Athena;
Scheibler suggests delivery of 1/10 from the sacred olive trees. (It is clearly
oil, because of the olive tree and Athena at right.) Ionic alphabet. - According
to an e-mail from Olga Palagia to Aegeanet, December 1, 1998, the RF vases from
Trachones are now on display in the Piraeus Museum, which has reopened.
CAVI Number: 7744
AVI Bibliography: ARV[2] (1963), 1154/38 bis (no bibl.). — Fink (1963), 133-36, pl. 13. —
Webster (1972), 67. — Scheibler (1987), 67-68, figs. 5,a-d (A, B, one side). —
AttScr (1990), no. 773. — Matheson (1995), 389/D 43 (not ill.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
