Decoration: Body: WOMEN (NAMED) ONE BALANCING STICK, SOME WITH BOXES AND SASHES, ONE SEATED ON CHAIR, ONE WITH PLEMOCHOE, ONE WITH NECKLACE, KALATHOS (DOMESTIC ?)
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 09.221.40
Publication Record: Apollo, The International Art Magazine: 152 (2000) 12, FIG.6 (PART) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1328.99 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 479 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 364 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.22, EUDEAIMONIA I G (PART) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.180. PEITHO 29 (PART OF BD) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.94, PAIDIA 4 (PART) Metropolitan Museum Journal: 30 (1995) 17-18, FIGS.1-2 (PARTS) Rosenzweig, R., Worshipping Aphrodite, Art and Cult in Classical Athens (Ann Arbor, 2004): FIG.13 (BD) Schmidt, S., Rhetorische Bilder auf attischen Vasen, Visuelle Kommunikation im 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Berlin, 2005): 149, FIG.72 (BD) Shapiro, H.A., Personifications in Greek Art, The Representation of Abstract Concepts 600-400 BC (Zurich, 1993): 33, 130, 182, 203, FIGS.1, 83, 141, 162.NO.1 Smith, A.C., Polis and Personification in Classical Athenian Art (Leiden, 2011): FIG.5.7 (BD)
CAVI Lemma: RF pyxis. Manner of Meidias Painter. Last quarter fifth. 420-410 (Richter).
CAVI Subject: Aphrodite and her companions.
CAVI Inscriptions: Most inscriptions above the heads, but Peitho is written to right of her face
and Aponia along the figure's back: Πειθω. Αφ[ρ]οδιτη. hυγιεια. Ευδαιμονια.
Παιδια. Ευκλεα{1}. Α̣πονια.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Ευκλε[ι]α, Shapiro.
CAVI Comments: Ευδαιμονια: see Beazley in AJA. Απονια: Shapiro: Aponia faces Eukleia who is
carrying a chest; neither has an attribute. Her name is squeezed in vertically
for reasons of space. The initial alpha was not recognized until after the plate
in Richter–Hall was made: see Beazley (1950), 320. Aponia may have a political
meaning, as πονος was a code word for the Peloponnesian War; cf. Boegehold
(1982a), 147-52. Hence απονια = ειρηνη. Ionic, but note heta.
