Votive Relief to Demeter and Kore
Greek, 425 - 400 B.C.
MarbleThe J. Paul Getty Museum
“Demeter, the goddess of fertility and agriculture, sits on a rock, wearing a polos, or crown. Her daughter Kore stands behind her holding the key to a temple. These two deities are connected with the cult of the Eleusinian Mysteries, which offered the possibility of a better afterlife to its initiates. Little is known of the precise promises of the cult or its ritual, as absolute secrecy was demanded of initiates. In front of the seated goddess, the lower legs are all that remain of the figure of Triptolemos, a young hero whose mission was to spread knowledge of agriculture to mortals. At the far right of the scene, on a lower level and at a smaller scale, are the lower legs of a figure, probably belonging to a human worshipper.
In the 400s B.C. Greeks flocked to the cult of the Eleusinian Mysteries, and images of the cult’s deities proliferated. A relief such as this one would have been placed in a sanctuary as an offering to the gods.”
I am sorry but when you post something please do some research on it…Kore was not the name of her daughter,Kore means daughter in Greek…Her daughter’s name was Persephone and she was married to Hades…I think that anyone with the slightest greek history knowledge is aware of this…