Abstract
For the first generation of red-figured pottery workshops in Lucania and Apulia, we have a case of painters establishing a market for their wares both in the Greek cities of the Ionian Sea and in the Italic communities of Lucania and Apulia. A question that can be addressed is whether there is a strong association of certain shapes or subjects with specific regions, or whether the market for the red-figured wares were generalized across southern Italy. Using a database based on the lists of Trendall and supplemented with published and displayed works post-Trendall, the data on frequency of shapes, subjects, and regional findspots of the Pisticci-Amykos Group and the groups associated with the Sisyphus Painter and the Painter of the Birth of Dionysos were subjected to statistical tests, including the chi-square test and Cramer's V. The results suggest that there are cases of specific associations between variables; for example, the bell-krater being strongly associated with Lucania outside of the Greek cities. This paper seeks to demonstrate how statistical testing can point to situations where differing consumer preference were met by the first generation of Lucanian and Apulian workshops.