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)
