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Jar (stamnos) fragments showing Demeter, Persephone, and Triptolemos
Greek
Classical Period
about late 5th century B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
Length x width (fragment a): 9.4 x 6 cm (3 11/16 x 2 3/8 in.)
Height x width (fragment b): 15.5 x 19.5 cm (6 1/8 x 7 11/16 in.)
Length (fragment c): 8 cm (3 1/8 in.)
Height x width (fragment b): 15.5 x 19.5 cm (6 1/8 x 7 11/16 in.)
Length (fragment c): 8 cm (3 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1900
Accession Number03.842a-c
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
DescriptionTwo friezes separated by band of meanders and checkered squares.
A. Demeter (add Greek) and Persephone (add Greek)
B. Triptolemos in winged car drawn by 2 serpents. To left an initiate with bakchos; and his introductor holding two torches. At upper right above torch, (add Greek) Iachos. Fragmentary maeander band, below which, head and shoulders of maenad with thyrsos. To right remains of drapery (?)
C. Fragmentary maeander band. Above, scroll; below, top of second thyrsos.
A. Demeter (add Greek) and Persephone (add Greek)
B. Triptolemos in winged car drawn by 2 serpents. To left an initiate with bakchos; and his introductor holding two torches. At upper right above torch, (add Greek) Iachos. Fragmentary maeander band, below which, head and shoulders of maenad with thyrsos. To right remains of drapery (?)
C. Fragmentary maeander band. Above, scroll; below, top of second thyrsos.
ProvenanceBy 1903: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought in Rome.); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, March 24, 1903