Lower part of a marble relief with two goddesses

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Lower part of a marble relief with two goddesses


Artist : Anonymous Model : Proserpine Perséphone Céres Déméter Date : between the Ist and the IInd century Material : Marble Acquisition : Fletcher Fund (1924)	Metropolitan Museum of Art Greek art at the Sixth through Fourth Century B.C. Left Ground Floor - Section 6 Item 18 on 23 Greek Antiquities Sculpture Area related Rome (Italy) Eleusis (Greece)

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Adaptation of the Great Eleusinian Relief of ca. 450-425 B.C.

The two goddesses are closely related to the figures of Demeter and Persephone on the Great Eleusinian Relief, a cast of which is displayed nearby. The altar like incense burner between them must be an addition of the Roman copyist.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art :
Greek art at the Sixth through Fourth Century B.C.

Ten marble fragments of the Great Eleusinian relief
Relief
Dynastie Julio-Claudienne
Anonymous
approx. from 27 B.C. to 14

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