Collection: Florence, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
Summary: Phaon and Demonassa
Ware: Attic Red Figure
Painter: Attributed to the Meidias Painter
Context: From Populonia
Date: ca. 420 BC - ca. 410 BC
Dimensions: H. 0.475 m; max. diam. (body) 0.342 m
Primary Citation: ARV2, 1312.2
Shape: Hydria
Beazley Number: 220494
Period: High Classical

Decoration Description:

Upper level: Erosora, standing profile to the right, wearing a peplos, a sphendone, two bands on each wrist, a beaded necklace, and gold dot earrings, holds a chain in her upraised left and lowered right hands, and raises her left foot (on higher rock?); Pannychis, seated 3/4-view to the left, her head profile to the right, ankles crossed, wearing a belted, a button-sleeved chiton belted with a narrow black band, a himation over her legs, sandals, two bands on each wrist, a beaded necklace, bead earrings, and a sphendone, holds a wreath in her lowered left hand, and turns her left hand upwards toward her hair; Aphrodite, crouched near profile to right in chariot, wearing a short-sleeved, belted chiton, a himation draped over both arms, two bands on each wrist, a beaded necklace, bead earrings, and a sphendone, holds reins in both hands; the chariot is drawn by nude Pothos, 3/4-view to the right, wearing sandals and a wreath, holding a phiale at waist level in his left hand, and a laurel wreath in his lowered right hand; Himeros, standing 3/4-view to the right, with his head turned 3/4-view to the left, wearing a wreath, holds a thymiaterion in his left hand, and reaches his right hand behind Himeros; Hygieia, seated 3/4-view to the left, legs crossed, wearing sandals, a short-sleeved, belted chiton with shoulder straps, a sphendone, a beaded necklace, and two bands on each wrist, holds a beaded necklace between both upraised hands; Eudaimonia (labelled), seated near profile to the right, with her head turned 3/4-view to the left, legs crossed, wearing a sleeveless, belted chiton, two bands on each wrist, a beaded necklace, and bead earrings, leans her right shoulder against Hygieia and holds her left hand in her lap.

Lower level: Chrysogeneia standing profile to the right, with her weight on her straight right leg (her left leg pulled back slightly), wearing a sleeveless, belted chiton with shoulder cords, a high pony tail, a beaded necklace, bead earrings, and two bands on each wrist, leans her left hand on the lap of Leura, and holds her right hand at waist level; Leura, seated 3/4-view to the left, her head 3/4-view to the right, and her ankles crossed, wearing a medium-sleeved, belted chiton, a himation over her legs and veiled over her head, a sphendone, two bands on each wrist, a beaded necklace, and bead earrings, holds a beaded necklace (or rod?) between both hands; a nude Eros, flying 3/4-view to the right, with his advanced left leg bent, wearing a taenia in his hair, reaches both arms to the right; Phaon, seated 3/4-view to the left, his head 3/4-view to the right, wearing a himation over his left leg, and a long, broad taenia with a vertical flap, plays a lyre that he holds with both hands; Demonassa, seated 3/4-view to the left, legs crossed, wearing a belted, medium-sleeved chiton, a himation over her legs, a beaded necklace, bead earrings, two bands on each wrist, and a sphendone, holds a necklace to the left between her upraised right hand and lowered left hand; Leto, standing to 3/4-view to the right, with weight on her left leg, right leg relaxed, head tilted down, wears a belted peplos, a himation which she pulls over her right shoulder with her right hand, a beaded necklace, two bands on each wrist, bead earrings, and a stephane, cradles a scepter in her lowered left arm; Apollo, seated 3/4-view to the left, wearing a himation over his left leg, legs crossed, and an olive crown, rests his left hand on his seat, and holds an olive branch upright in his upraised right hand.

Sources Used: LIMC, 7.171 s.v. Pannychia no. 1, pl. 104 (A. Kossatz-Deissmann), 365 s.v. Phaon no. 2, pl. 318 (G. Berger-Doer), 501 s.v. Pothos no. 4 (J. Bazant); Shapiro 1993, 234 no. 17 and passim, figs. 21, 69, 80; Robertson 1992, 240 fig. 244; LIMC, 5.425 s.v. Himeros no. 4 (A. Hermary), 556 s.v. Hygieia no. 3 (F. Croissant); Add2, 361; Boardman 1989a, fig. 286; LIMC, 4.12 s.v. Erosora no. 1, pl. 12 (C. Weiss), 47 s.v. Eudaimonia 1 no. 2, pl. 21 (H.A. Shapiro); Burn 1987, 97 M2 pls. 27-29; Moreno 1987, 23 fig. 20, 89 fig. 96; LIMC, 3.290-91 s.v. Chrysogeneia no. 1, pl. 229 (C. Weiss), 374 s.v. Demonassa 2 no. 1, pl. 271 (C. Weiss); LIMC, 2.117 s.v. Aphrodite no. 1193, pl. 120, 121 no. 1265, 148 no. 1550 (A. Delivorrias); Schefold 1981, 281-83 fig. 399; Para, 477; Buschor 1969, 211; Hibbs 1961 73, fig. 79; P.E. Arias and M. Hirmer, Mille anni di Ceramica Greca (Florence 1960) xlvi, pls. 216-17; EAA 3 (1960) 429 s.v. Eros (H. Speier), fig. 523; D. Levi, CVA Regionale Museo Archeologico di Firenze 2 (1957) 57-58, pls. 57, 61.2, 64-65 (with previous bibliography); Levi & Stenico 1956, fig. 132; Stella 1956, 257; Rumpf 1953, pl. 35.3; Becatti 1947, pls. 5-7; Richter 1946, fig. 115; Speier 1932, pl. 10.2; H. Licht, Sittengeschichte Griechenlands (Dresden 1925) 1.133; Pfuhl 1923, 3 fig. 594; L. Milani, "Regione VII (Etruria)," NSc 1905, 61-64, fig. 8.