177, London: Swan Sonnenscheon and Co., Lim. A Dictionary of Classical Antiquities: Mythology, Religion, Literature & Art, 7th edn. To experts illuminate this artwork's story Compared to the original, the execution of the hair and drapery in the copy is sharper and accords with the style current in Augustan art. Here the ten Roman fragments are embedded in a cast of the Greek relief. The original Greek work and a number of Roman copies survive.
The original marble relief was found at the sanctuary of Demeter at Eleusis, the site of the Eleusinian mysteries, a secret cult that was famous throughout antiquity.
On contemporary Athenian vases, he is usually shown as a bearded adult seated in a winged chariot about to set out on his civilizing mission. The boy is thought to be Triptolemos, who was sent by Demeter to teach men how to cultivate grain. Each goddess extends her right hand toward a nude youth, but it is no longer possible to determine what they held. At the right is Persephone, her daughter and the wife of Hades, the god of the underworld. Demeter, the goddess of agricultural abundance, stands at the left, clad in a peplos and himation (cloak) and holding a scepter. The ten fragments have been set into a cast of the original relief.
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