Cast Gallery catalogue number: B144

Head of Demeter.
The statue was part of a group of Artemis, Despoina, Demeter and Anytos.
For the head of Artemis see B143; for the head of Anytos see B145.

• Plaster cast: Height: 92cm.
• Copy of the head of a marble statue.
• The head:
  • is from an original group made by Damophon of Messene in about 200-150 BC.
  • was found in the Temple of Despoina at Lykosoura (in southern Greece) in 1889.
  • is now in Athens, National Museum, 1734.