Decoration: A,B: DOMESTIC, WOMEN, ONE SEATED, ONE WITH MIRROR I: DEMONASSA (NAMED) SEATED BETWEEN PEITHO AND EROS, PLANT
Last Recorded Collection: Malibu (CA), The J. Paul Getty Museum: 82.AE.38
Publication Record: Burn, L., The Meidias Painter (Oxford, 1987): PLS.30, 31A (A,I) Greek Vases in the J.Paul Getty Museum: 2 (1985), 80-87, FIGS.1-5, 8 (I, A, B, PARTS) J. Paul Getty Museum Journal: 18 (1990) 62, FIG.17 (I) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.180, PEITHO 53 (I) Martina, A. and Cozzoli, A-T. (eds.), La tragedia greca, Testimonianze archeologiche e iconografiche, Atti del Convegno, Roma, 14-16 ottobre 2004 (Rome, 2009): FIG.4 AT PAGES 151-181 (I) Oakley, J.H. and Palagia, O. (eds.), Athenian Potters and Painters, Volume II (Oxford, 2010): 293, FIG.6 (I) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 7 (I, A, B) Shapiro, H.A., Personifications in Greek Art, The Representation of Abstract Concepts 600-400 BC (Zurich, 1993): 197, FIG.158 (I)
CAVI Lemma: RF CUP. MEIDIAS PAINTER (TRUE){1}. LAST QUARTER FIFTH.
CAVI Subject: INT.: TWO SEATED WOMEN WITH EROS. A, B, EACH: SIX WOMEN ON EACH SIDE, THAT
NEAR THE CENTER SEATED IN EACH CASE.
CAVI Inscriptions: INT.: ABOVE THE WOMAN IN THE CENTER: Δεμωνασ[σ]ας̣. A: ABOVE THE SEATED
WOMAN: καλη. B: ABOVE THE HEADS OF THE TWO FIGURES ON THE RIGHT: Ε ΔΑ{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} THE INT. BY THE MEIDIAS PAINTER, THE EXT. A LESSER EFFORT OR BY A
FOLLOWER; THE ORNAMENTS BY LEZZI-HAFTER'S HAND 3. {2} SO TRUE, WONDERING IF IT
COULD BE A SIGNATURE OF MEIDIAS.
CAVI Comments: ROBERTSON (AFTER TRUE) THINKS DEMONASSA IS A BRIDE PROVIDED BY APHRODITE FOR
PHAON. THE NAME IS ALSO FOUND ON FLORENCE 81,947 (RF HYDRIA: THE MEIDIAS
PAINTER'S PHAON VASE, ATTSCR (1990), NO. 804, TRUE, FIG. 6, PART): Δημωνασ[σας];
AND ON AGORA P 10,270 (FR. OF RF CUP, EARLY FOURTH CENTURY, ANOTHER PHAON VASE,
WRONGLY(?) SAID TO BE BY THE JENA PAINTER IN ATTSCR (1990), 116 [AFTER TRUE],
UNDER NO. 804; SEE IBID., NO. 828A: Δημωνασσα). SIMON, GV 148, NOT KNOWING THE
MALIBU CUP, SUGGESTED (ON FLORENCE 81,947) THAT DEMONASSA IS APHRODITE, A
VARIANT OF APHRODITE PANDEMOS, DESPITE THE APPEARANCE OF APHRODITE IN PERSON ON
THE SAME VASE; THE IDEA IS FAVORED BY BURN (SEE ROBERTSON (1992), N. 27).
ROBERTSON TRANSLATES DEMONASSA `LADY OF THE PEOPLE,' AND SEEMS PUZZLED BY IT.
PROBABLY MIXED ALPHABET.
CAVI Number: 4958
AVI Bibliography: BADB 13,687. — TRUE (1985), 79-88. — BURN (1987), 43 AND 100/M 32, PLS.
30-31,A. — ATTSCR (1990), 116, UNDER NO. 804. — ROBERTSON (1992), 239 AND N. 26.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
