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.