Lower Part of an Ancient Greek Marble Relief Showing Two Goddesses and an Altar in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Feb. 2007

Lower part of a marble relief with two goddesses

Greek Antiquities: Sculpture (Relief)

Copy of a Greek original from the Roman Empire

Material : Marble

Date : between the Ist and the IInd century

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

Acquisition : Fletcher Fund (1924)

Description: 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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