Melodia (personification)

The motif is most associated with the "aristocratic" Psalters of the Middle Byzantine period, so-called because of the wealthy patrons for whom they were produced.

[3] Dated to about 1090 and produced in the Monastery of St. Sabba, near Jerusalem, it contains the Psalms and Canticles, and is decorated with a series of eight full-page miniatures, much rubbed but still legible.

Six scenes intended to introduce the Book of Psalms illustrate important episodes in David's life.

[4] The same figure of Melodia in the 11th-century Psalter in the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice is inscribed ἡ σύνεσις (he synesis: "intelligence").

[5][2] This composition passed into secular art, serving as the centrepiece of a 12th-century silver bowl with a depiction of Digenes Akritas and Eudokia.