Collection: Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
Summary: Personifications
Ware: Attic Red Figure
Painter: In the manner of the Meidias Painter
Context: From Gnathia
Date: ca. 410 BC - ca. 400 BC
Dimensions: Lid: H. 0.073 m; max. diam. (rim) 0.276 m; lekanis: H. 0.095 m
Primary Citation: ARV2, 1327.85
Shape: Lekanis lid
Period: High Classical

Decoration Description: Harmonia (labelled), seated near profile to the right in a klismos, wearing a short-sleeved, belted chiton, a himation over her legs, a sphendone (with a white wreath?), and a black band necklace, rests her left arm on the back of her chair, and proffers in her right hand a box with two white balls atop, and a fringed sash; a kalathos; Eukleia (labelled), standing profile to the left, with her weight on her left leg, wearing a sphendone, a peplos, and a black band necklace, holds white fronds in her lowered left hand and her upraised right hand; Eunomia (labelled), standing 3/4-view to the right, wearing a belted peplos, with her weight on her left leg, her right leg relaxed, holds in her right hand an inverted keras (?) with white strings, and extends, in her left hand, an alabastron; a kalathos below; Pannychis (labelled), standing profile to the right, with her weight on her left leg, her right leg relaxed, wearing a sakkos, and a peplos, partially obscures a cushioned stool, and holds white fronds in her upraised right hand, and her lowered left hand; a swan (?); Aphrodite (labelled), seated 3/4-view to the right on a klismos, wearing a short-sleeved, belted chiton with shoulder straps, a himation over her legs, a black band necklace, a red taenia (with a white wreath?), holds drapery over her right shoulder with her right hand, and on her left hand a small, nude, red Eros, crouched profile to the left, wearing a red taenia, and holding a white necklace between his upraised right hand and his lowered left hand; a kalathos; Klymene (labelled), standing 3/4-view to the left, with her weight on her right leg and her left leg relaxed, wearing a belted peplos, a sphendone, and a black band necklace, holds in her left hand an object shaped like an inverted keras with white strings, and in her left hand a footed plemmochoe and a fringed sash.

Sources Used: Barringer 1995, 133-35, 209 no. 208, pl. 132; LIMC, 7.171 s.v. Pannychia, Pannychis no. 3 (A. Kossatz-Deissmann); Shapiro 1993, 73, 236 no. 26, figs. 23, 61; LIMC 6 (1993) 71 s.v. Klymene 7 no. 2 (A. Kossatz-Deissmann); Add2, 364; LIMC, 4.50 s.v. Eukleia no. 5 (A. Kossatz-Deissmann), 63-64 s.v. Eunomia no. 5 (A. Kossatz-Deissmann), 407 s.v. Halia (R. Vollkommer), 413 s.v. Harmonia no. 14, pl. 241 (E. Paribeni); Burn 1987, 115 MM 126; LIMC, 2.122 s.v. Aphrodite no. 1274 (A. Delivorrias); Metzler 1980, 77 fig. 1; Hamdorf 1964 111 no. 440d; Hibbs 1961 72, fig. 78; EAA 3 (1960) 523 s.v. Eukleia (A. Comotti), fig. 632; Hampe 1955, 119d, 120; Métzger 1951, 19; Guarducci 1938, 1, pl. on p. 5; U. v. Wilamowitz-Möllendorff, Der Glaube der Hellenen (Berlin 1931-1932) 1.184; Ducati 1909, pls. 3.1, 4; Nicole 1908, 102, fig. 23; CIG 8362b; G. Minervini, "Patera del Museo Santangelo," Bullettino archeologico Napolitano n.s. 2 (1854) pl. 6.