Collection: Leuven, Katholieke Universiteit, Didaktisch Museum, Archeologie
Summary: Epidauros and Asklepios with Eukleia
Ware: Attic Red Figure
Painter: Attributed to the Meidias Painter
Attributed By: D. Cramers
Context: Said to be from Athens, Agora
Date: ca. 420 BC - ca. 410 BC
Dimensions: H. 0.022 m; max. diam. (rim) 0.207 m
Shape: Plate
Period: High Classical

Decoration Description:

A female figure, perhaps Eukleia or Eutychia (labelled), leaning 3/4-view to the right, with weight on her right leg, wearing a chiton (preserved from the knees down), probably rests her right elbow on the shoulder of Epidauros (missing); Epidauros (labelled), standing near frontal, with her head profile to the right, wearing a peplos, and a two-band stephane, holds a nude baby (top part preserved), Asklepios (labelled), seated frontal in her arms, with long curly hair and a wreath, hangs his left arm at his side (missing below the upper arm), and rests his right arm on the shoulder of Epidauros; a tripod on an Ionic column with a two-stepped base, is slightly obscured by Eudaimonia (labelled), seated 3/4-view to the left on her himation, with her legs crossed, wearing a sleeveless, belted chiton, a sphendone, dotted disk earrings, a black band necklace, and two white bands on each wrist. She holds a garland between her raised right hand and her lowered left hand.

Simon and Cramers have suggested that the tripod alludes to a victory in a Dithyrambic contest, the winning poem of which probably told a story of Asklepios' birth, and that Eudaimonia's wreath may be another victory symbol.

Collection History: Formerly in the Cramers Collection G 36

Sources Used: Shapiro 1993, 65, 234 no. 20, fig. 18; Boardman 1989a, fig. 305; Burn 1989, 65, 79, fig. 2; LIMC, 4.47 s.v. Eudaimonia 1 no. 3 (H.A. Shapiro), 50 s.v. Eukleia no. 12 (A. Kossatz-Deissmann); Shapiro 1988, 206; Burn 1987, 100 M 33, pl. 46; LIMC, 3.803 s.v. Epidauros no. 1 (N. Yalouris); LIMC, 2.868 s.v. Asklepios no. 1, pl. 631 (B. Holtzmann); Schefold 1981, fig. 70; D. Cramers and E. Simon, "Ein neues Werk des Meidiasmalers," AA 1978, 67-73.