Cast Gallery catalogue number: D043
Demeter stands at the left, holding a sceptre. She gives corn (added in bronze or gold) to the young Triptolemos, who will teach mankind the art of agriculture. Persephone stands at the right, holding a torch.
- Plaster cast: Height: 2.22m.
- Copy of a marble relief.
- The relief:
- was made in about 435 BC.
- was found at Eleusis (lower town) in 1859.
- is now in Athens, National Museum, 126.