| Collection: | Malibu, The J. Paul Getty Museum |
| Summary: | Eleusinian deities |
| Ware: | Attic Red Figure |
| Painter: | Attributed to the Syleus Painter |
| Attributed By: | J.R. Guy |
| Date: | ca. 470 BC - ca. 460 BC |
| Dimensions: | H. 0.368 m; max. diam. (body) 0.357 m |
| Shape: | Handleless stamnos |
| Beazley Number: | 43376 |
| Period: | Early Classical |
Decoration Description:
A: Demeter standing profile to the right, with her left foot advanced, wearing a himation draped over her left shoulder and around her lower body, over a medium-, button-sleeved chiton, a narrow stephane, a krobylos, and a spiked pendant earring, holds grains in both hands, her left arm raised, and her right arm lowered; Triptolemos, seated 3/4-view to the right in his winged chariot (with a spotted snake profile to the right just behind the wheel), wearing a himation draped over his left arm and around his lower body, over a short-sleeved chiton, a white wreath in his hair, with a bun, hold grains in both hands, each arm bent at waist level; Persephone, labelled on the left of her body, following the curve of her drapery and interrupted by her arm), standing 3/4-view to the left, with her right foot advanced, wearing a himation draped over her left shoulder and around her lower body, over a medium-, button-sleeved chiton, and her hair in a krobylos (?), tied with two narrow taeniae, and a spiked red pendant earring, holds an oinochoe in her slightly lowered left hand, and extends a phiale in her right hand, at waist level; bearded Kalamites, standing 3/4-view to the left, with his right foot advanced, wearing a himation draped around his lower body and over his left shoulder, over a short-sleeved chiton, a fugitive white wreath in his hair, holds his clenched left fist just below waist level, and a scepter in his left hand.
B: Bearded Theos, standing profile to the right, with his left foot advanced, wearing a himation around his lower body and draped over his left shoulder, over a medium-sleeved decorated chiton, and a krobylos tied with two thin taeniae, holds a scepter upright in his slightly raised left hand, and a phiale, at waist level, in his right hand, into which a female figure (Thea? [Clinton], inscribed KALOS), pours a libation from an oinochoe held in her upraised right hand; she is standing profile to the left, with her weight on her left leg, her right leg slightly advanced, wearing a himation draped around her lower body and draped over her left arm, over a medium-sleeved chiton, and two taenia in her hair, the ends of her hair held by a swath of fabric; a bearded male figure, standing profile to the right, with his left foot advanced, enveloped in a himation wrapped around his bent right arm, his left hand extended, at waist level; Eleusis, standing profile to the right, with her left foot advanced, wearing a himation draped around her lower body and over her left shoulder, over a medium-sleeved chiton, a sakkos, a pointed pendant earring, holds an oinochoe in her upraised right hand, and a phiale at waist level in her extended left hand; bearded Hippothon, standing near frontal, turning his head profile to the right, with weight on his frontal left leg, his right leg relaxed and bent, wearing a himation draped around his lower body and over his left shoulder, over a short-sleeved chiton, and a fugitive white wreath, his hair in a bun, rests his obscured left hand on his hip, and holds a scepter upright in his upraised right hand.
Collection History: Purchased from the art market, London.
Sources Used: GettyMusJ 18 (1990) 167 no. 5 (ill.).