Roman copy of the votive relief from Eleusis

Classification
votive relief; relief
Culture
Roman
Dimensions
height: 227 cm
Date
27 B.C. – 14 A.D.
Period
Late Republic; Early Imperial Period (1st century)
Material
marble
Iconography
Demeter; peplos; himation; grain, stalk of grain; sceptre (skeptron/sceptrum); Persephone; chiton; torch; Triptolemos; child
Present location
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Greek and Roman Art
Inventory
14.130.9
ID
Per-6680

Roman period copy after a votive relief originally made around 440 B.C. and representing Demeter, Kore and the child Triptolemos.

For a detailed description, see the website of the Metropolitan Museum.

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Related pages

Votive relief: the Great Eleusinian Relief