Last Recorded Collection: Munich, Antikensammlungen: 9406
Publication Record: Bentz, M. (ed.), Vasenforschung und Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Standortbestimmung und Perspektiven, Beihefte zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum I (Munich, 2002): 71, FIG.10 (PART OF A) Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts: 103 (1988), 71, FIGS.3-4 (A,B) Knauss, F.S. (ed.), Die unsterblichen Götter Griechenlands, Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek München (Munich, 2012): 262, FIG.17.22 (COLOUR OF A) Mace, A. (ed.), Choses privees et chose publique en Grece ancienne (Grenoble, 2012): FRONTCOVER (COLOUR OF PART OF A) Münchner Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst: 38 (1987) 228-229, FIGS.5-6 (A, B) Rosen, R.M. and Farrell, J. (eds.), Nomodeiktes, Studies in Honor of Martin Oswald (Michigan, 1993): 214, FIG.1 (A) The Birth of Democracy, An Exhibition celebrating the 2500th Anniversary of Democracy at the National Archives, Washington, D.C. (Athens, 1993): 117, FIG.18.6 (COLOUR OF A)
CAVI Lemma: BF amphora. Unattributed. Ca. 500 (Kaeser).
CAVI Subject: A: an owl to right, head frontal, resting on a palmette (plant). B: similar.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: to left of the owl, in very large letters, vertically down: δεμοσιος. To
right of the top attachment of the left handle on the reverse, Gr.: an upright
cross{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} this shows in a side view of the amphora in the flyer and poorly on the
colored picture of B. It resembles the upright chi rather than the X-shaped, but
is probably not a letter as the vertical is much longer than the horizontal.
CAVI Comments: Acquired 1986. The amphora is an official measure; K. supplies μετρητης (I
would supply αμφορευς). Frs. of similar amphoras were found in the Agora: see M.
Lang, Agora 10, 56ff. The actual measurement is 4 liters below a full metretes.
This specimen is surely from a tomb; perhaps it was discarded as an official
measure and ended up in private hands. See K. further. Four-stroke sigma.
