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K26.1 PLUTUS & DEMETER

Plutus & Demeter | Apulian red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu
Catalogue No. Malibu 86.AE.680
Beazley Archive No. N/A
Ware Apulian Red Figure
Shape Loutrophoros
Painter Attributed to the Painter of Louvre MNB 1148
Date ca. 350 - 340 B.C.
Period Late Classical

DESCRIPTION

Detail of Demeter and Plutus from a painting depicting the tale of Leda and the Swan.

The goddess Demeter, seated on a pair of cushions and holding a four-headed Eleusinian torch, is labelled "ELEUSIS", as queen of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Her son Plutus, here named "ENIATOS" (Year), holds a cornucopia (horn of plenty) bursting with heads of grain.

ARTICLES

Demeter, Plutus, Eleusis

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