Agora Object: S 1251
Inventory Number:   S 1251
Section Number:   ΝΝ 2950
Title:   Relief with Eleusinian Divinities
ΤΙΤΛΟΣ:   Μαρμάρινο αναθηματικό ανάγλυφο με θέμα από τα Ελευσίνια Μυστήρια: Δήμητρα, Περσεφόνη, Ίακχος με τον Πλούτο, και λατρευτές 4ος αι.π.Χ.
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Complete. Rectangular plaque with plain border, tenon for setting below and rough-finished back.
Seven figures in low relief, left to right: draped woman (Demeter) with staff (?) in left hand and patera in right, seated on a stool. Next, Kore, standing facing, holding a long torch diagonally across her body; then a draped male figure who carries a small child on his arm, the child holding a cornucopia. At the right, three figures on a smaller scale, draped, standing left: man, woman and child.
Pentelic marble.
Cf. S 1646 (Τ 1490).
Tenon set with plaster into hollow base 1956.
ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΗ:   Μαρμάρινο ανάγλυφο, αναθηματικό μνημείο, με παράσταση από τα Ελευσίνια Μυστήρια. Διακρίνονται επτά μορφές, μεταξύ των οποίων και οι: Δημήτηρ -Κόρη - Ίακχος - λατρευταί. Πεντελικό μάρμαρο.
Context:   Loose brown fill, Hellenistic.
Notebook Page:   4988
Negatives:   Leica, XXIX-23, 95-11-3, 95-11-4, 95-11-5, 95-11-6, 95-11-7, 95-11-8, color slide
Dimensions:   H. 0.218; W. 0.312
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Date:   11 June 1947
Section:   ΝΝ
Grid:   ΝΝ:61/ΙΘ
Bibliography:   Museum Guide (2014), p. 172.
    AgoraPicBk 27 (2006), p. 48, fig. 51.
    Baumer (1997), no. R 2, pp. 38, 64, 83-84, 86-88, 114-115, 117, 133, nn. 442, 621, 630, 679, 693, pl. 25.2
    Güntner (1994), no. D 13, p. 151, pl. 28.1.
    Guide (1990), p. 266.
    AgoraPicBk 19 (1980), fig. 9.
    Guide (1976), p. 271.
    Guide (1962), pp. 181-182.
    Hesperia 17 (1948), pp. 177-178, pl. 54.2.
    Agora XXXI, pp. 218-219, no. 7, pl. 38.
    Agora XXXVIII, no. 49, p. 55, fig. 7, pl. 14.
Is Similar To:   Agora:Object:S 1646
References:   Publications (6)
Publication Page: Agora 31, s. 241, p. 218
Publication Page: Agora 31, s. 298
Images (29)
Notebook: ΝΝ-24
Notebook: ΝΝ-25
Notebook Page: ΝΝ-24-52 (pp. 4694-4695)
Notebook Page: ΝΝ-25-100 (pp. 4988-4989)
Card: S 1251
Card: S 1251