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.
