Decoration: A: MERCHANT (OLD MAN) WITH REED IN AMPHORA SEATED ON BLOCK (WITH NET ?), WOMAN B: DOGS FIGHTING, AMPHORAE, LEKYTHOI, DRAPED YOUTH WITH STICK, STOOL
Last Recorded Collection: Florence, Museo Archeologico Etrusco: 72732
Publication Record: Archeo, Attualita di Passato: 158, APRIL 1998, 64 (COLOUR OF B) Capecchi, G. et al., In memoria di Enrico Paribeni (Rome, 1998): PL.36 (A, B) Chatzidimitriou, A., Parastaseis Ergasterion kai Emporiou stin Eikonographia ton Archaikon kai Klasikon Chronon (Athens, 2005): PL.49.E15 (A, B) Esposito, A.M. and Tommaso, G. (eds.), Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze, Vasi Attici (Firenze, 1993): 45, FIG.57 (COLOUR OF A) Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 881, NO.1264 (A) 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): 159, FIG.2 (COLOUR OF A) Matheson, S.B. and Pollitt, J.J., Old Age in Greek and Roman Art (Yale, 2022): 228, APP.106 (COLOUR OF A) Oakley, J.H. (ed.), Athenian Potters and Painters, Volume III (Oxford and Philadelphia, 2014): 200, FIG.8 (B) Oakley, J.H., A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases (Madison, 2020): 63, FIGS.2.18A-B (A, B) Revue Archeologique: 1926, 288-90, FIGS.4-5 (DRAWINGS OF A, B) Scheibler, I., Griechische Töpferkunst, Herstellung, Handel und Gebrauch der antiken Tongefässe (Munich, 1983): 19, FIG.7 (B) Scheibler, I., Griechische Töpferkunst, Herstellung, Handel und Gebrauch der antiken Tongefässe, 2nd ed. (Munich, 1995): 19, FIG.7 (B)
CAVI Lemma: BF pelike. Antimenean{1}. Ca. 500 (Scheibler).
CAVI Subject: A: bearded oil seller sitting on a basket(?), with a stick in a pelike,
gesticulating to a woman customer. B: bearded oil seller at a stool warding off
with a stick two dogs attracted by a group of lekythoi and a pelike.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: from the man's mouth: κ(α)λον ε(ι)[1-2(?)]{2}. B: to right of man's upper
body (it issues from the mouth of the seller): κ(.)ναμ̣εμι̣{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} not in Beazley. {2} triangular alpha. The end of the inscription is quite
doubtful; the ph. seems to show a restoration following the bracketed iota. {3}
very uncertain reading (the surface is dirty).
CAVI Comments: I do not think the inscriptions are nonsense, though they are probably partly
miswritten. On A the seller is praising the oil.
CAVI Number: 3587
AVI Bibliography: Waele (1926), 1, 288, fig. 4. — Scheibler (1983), 19, fig. 7 (B). —
Esposito–De Tommaso (1993), 45/57 (A). — Shapiro (1997), 65 and nn. 16 and 27.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
