Decoration: 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
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum: 11036
Publication Record: Antike Kunst: 9 (1966), PL.20.1 Antike Welt: 6 (2014) 29, FIG.4 (COLOUR OF OV) Bowden, H., Mystery Cults in the Ancient World (London, 2010): 41, FIG.25 Classical Antiquity: 34.2 (OCTOBER 2015) 272, FIG.3 Clinton, K., Myth and Cult, The Iconography of the Eleusinian Mysteries (Stockholm, 1992): FRONTISPIECE, 204, FIG.73 Deubner, L., Attische Feste (Berlin, 1932): PL.5.1 Ephemeris Archaiologike: 1901, PL.1 (DRAWING) Ephemeris Archaiologike: 1960, 82, FIG.1 (DRAWING) Gagarin, M. (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome (Oxford, 2010): VOLUME 3, 39 Haysom, M. and Wallensten, J. (eds.), Current Approaches to Religion in Ancient Greece (Stockholm, 2011): 191, FIG.1 (DRAWING OF 2) Kaltsas, N. and Shapiro, A., Worshiping Women, Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens (Athens and New York, 2008): 151, NO.66 (COLOUR OF ELEUSIS CAST) Karoglou, K., Attic Pinakes, Votive images in clay. British Archaeological Reports International Series 2104 (Oxford, 2010): 187, FIG.113 Levente, I., and Metsopolou, C. (eds.), Hiera kai latreies tes Demetras ston archaio helleniko kosmo (Volos, 2010): 134, FIG.8 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.591, DEMETER 392 Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung: 23 (1898) 295 (DRAWING OF PART) Neils, J. and Rogers, D. (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens (Cambridge, 2021): 336, FIG.24.1 (OV) Nilsson, M., Geschichte der griechischen Religion (Munich, 1941-50): I, PL.41.2 Scheibler, I., Griechische Malerei der Antike (Munich, 1994): 147, FIG.70 Simon, E., Die Götter der Griechen (Munich, 1969): 114, FIG.108 Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum: III, PL.61.81
CAVI Lemma: Terracotta stele. NOT A VASE. From Eleusis. Unattributed.
Second half fourth. *G. Mylonas, Eleusis and the Eleusinian
Mysteries (1961) 213-21, fig. 88. Collignon-Couve, no. 1968
(old bibl.). Skias, Eph. 1901,1ff. and 164ff. D. Philios, Eph.
1906, 210 n. 4 (the inscription). E. Simon, Festivals of
Attica (1983), pl. 11. *Vidi. AK 9 (1966), pl. 20,1 is a good
picture. JdI 87 (1972) 105-109. Script 825.
CAVI Subject: Gable: Seated goddess and worshippers. Body: Eleusinian
procession.