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PLAQUE (ATHENIAN, RED-FIGURE)

Red-figure -400 to -300

Obverse 1: CULT (KOMOS ?) WOMEN, ONE PLAYING PIPES, YOUTHS AND MAN | Obverse 2: CULT, ELEUSIS, DEMETER SEATED ON BOX, PERSEPHONE WITH TORCHES, GODDESS (?) SEATED WITH PHIALE AND SCEPTRE, YOUTHS, ONE IN PATTERNED CHITONISKOS WITH TORCHES (IACCHOS, EUMOLPOS ?), DRAPED MAN WITH SPRIGS, WOMEN, ONE WITH STAFF, OMPHALOS

Inscription

Inscription: NIINIONTIONTHEOINA | Transcription: NINNION TOIN THE[OI]N A[NETHEKEN

Provenance

2 recorded events

Discovery

Eleusis, Attica, Greece

bapd

First recorded

National Archaeological Museum, Athens

Current location

Technique

Red-figure

Date

-400 to -300

Culture

ATHENIAN

Findspot

Eleusis, Attica, Greece

Museum

National Archaeological Museum, Athens

Accession Number

11036

Image Source

beazley

Images courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0)