220518, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, Unknown, Blacas Collection, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1846,0925.12
Attributed To:Connected with MEIDIAS P by SMITH Imitation of MEIDIAS P by BEAZLEY
Decoration: Body: WOMEN, ONE SEATED WITH NECKLACE, ONE WITH WREATH AND PHIALE WITH GRAPE OF VINE AND FRUITS (SOME NAMED, EUDAIMONIA, HYGIEIA), YOUTH WITH SPEARS IN BOOTS AND CHLAMYS (NAMED), EROS, PLANTS
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: E698
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1316 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 460.18 Burn, L., The Meidias Painter (Oxford, 1987): PL.20C-D Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 362 Herford, M., Handbook of Greek Vase Painting (Manchester, 1919): PL.11.D Jahn, O., Über bemalte Vasen mit Goldschmuck (Leipzig, 1865): PL.2.1-2 Lenormant, C. and de Witte, J., Elite des monuments ceramographiques (1837-61): IV, PL.84 (COLOUR DRAWING OF BD) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.21, EUDAIMONIA I 4 (PART) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PANDAISIA 2 (PART) Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung: 32 (1907) 118 Prospettiva Rivista dell' arti antica e moderna (Siena): 70 (1993) 16, FIG.31 (DRAWING) Shapiro, H.A., Personifications in Greek Art, The Representation of Abstract Concepts 600-400 BC (Zurich, 1993): 64, 131, FIGS.17, 84 (PARTS) Smith, A.C., Polis and Personification in Classical Athenian Art (Leiden, 2011): FIG.5.12 (PART OF BD)
CAVI Lemma: RF squat lekythos. From Ruvo. Manner of Meidias Painter III{1}. Late fifth.
CAVI Subject: Eudaimonia and other companions of Aphrodite: at left: Hygieia. Pandaisia. In
center: Eudaimonia seated, with Eros flying toward her; a youth with spears;
woman.
CAVI Inscriptions: Υγιεια. Πανδαισια. Ευδαιμον[ι]α{2}. Πολυκ̣[λη]ς̣{3}. καλη (a companion).
CAVI Footnotes: {1} "Laboured copy of the Meidias Painter by a poor artist," ARV[2]. {2}
vidi; so also BM Cat.; ARV[2] and Shapiro give Eudaimonia. {3} vidi; ARV[2]
gives Poly[kle]s; the reading is not certain; ΠΟΛΥΙ..ΟΣ, Πολυ[ειδ]ος(?), C.
Smith. Brückner reads Πολυ|..ος and does not supply. Polykles (Beazley's
restoration) is unknown and presumably fictitious (Shapiro). [The name is
common: see LGPN ii, s.v. There might be a person who can be identified with
this one. Or a punning name: the women promise the youth `much fame,' in war(?),
or athletics(?)].
CAVI Comments: Burn 33: the seated Eudaimonia takes the place of Aphrodite. Pandaisia with a
basket of fruit could allude to a wedding feast which she personifies. Brückner
thought Poly... is the bridegroom and καλη (the woman at right) is the bride.
Alpha with vertical cross stroke. Some letters disjointed, all small.
CAVI Number: 4639
AVI Bibliography: C.H. Smith in BM Cat. E (1896), 346-47 (not ill.). — Brückner (1907), 117,
fig. 8 (dr. after Jahn (1865), pl. 2,1). — ARV[2] (1963), 1316/(a). — Burn
(1987), 33, 101/P 1, pl. 20,c-d. — LIMC iv (1988), 47, Eudaimonia 4. — Add.[2]
(1989), 362. — AttScr (1990), no. 913. — Shapiro (1993), 234/18, 64, fig. 17,
131, fig. 84 (detail).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
