 They tortured their victims with brass-studded scourges and inflicted plagues.The was mentioned in "The Names of the Minor Planets" by Paul Herget in 1955 ().In the Tholen-like taxonomy of the Small Solar System Objects Spectroscopic Survey (S3OS2), "Erynia" is a common stony S-type asteroid, while in the SMASS-like taxonomic variant of the survey, it is an Sl-subtype, which transitions from the S- to the uncommon L-type.