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Stanford 70.12

A: Under the left handle, bearded Pan (with goat ears and horns), running 3/4-view to the left, with his weight on his bent left leg, his right foot slightly above the ground, and his head turned profile to the right, wearing a nebris fastened around his neck and slung over his upraised left arm, hangs his right arm at his side; Demeter (labelled) (legs, upper right arm, upper torso, left hand, neck, and back of head preserved), seated on a rock 3/4-view to the right, wearing a himation draped around her lower body (and probably over her left shoulder), over a medium-, button-sleeved chiton, a sakkos, and tear-drop earrings, holds her bent right arm at her side, and holds upright two torches in her upraised left hand; she looks up to a young female figure, Parthenos (labelled) standing near frontal, with her head profile to the left and her feet profile to the right, wearing a himation draped around her lower body and over her left shoulder, over a bordered, medium-sleeved chiton, and a rayed taenia, holds her bent right arm at her side, and rests her left arm seemingly on a short torch; Triptolemos (labelled), seated profile to the right in his winged, snaky chariot with snakes (torso, upper arms and shoulders, and lower half of his wings are missing), wearing a himation draped over his legs, over a chiton, and a grain wreath, bends both arms at waist level, holds three grain stalks in his slightly raised left hand, and a phiale in his left hand; Kore (labelled), standing 3/4-view to the left, with her weight on her right leg, wearing a peplos belted over a long overfold, a rayed taenia tied elaborately at the back, and black hoop earrings, pours a libation from a frontal oinochoe, held in her upraised right hand, at an angle toward the viewer, and holds her left hand at her side, her arm slightly bent; a female figure, perhaps Hekate (labelled), as suggested by the Raubitscheks, standing profile to the left, wearing a himation wrapped around her torso, and over her left shoulder/arm, over a medium-sleeved chiton, and a rayed taenia, holds a scepter, with a floral finial, upright in her upraised right hand, her left hand obscured by the himation; under the handle, a satyr (missing his upper left arm, shoulders and above) running 3/4-view to the right, with his weight on his advanced, bent, left leg, wearing a nebris fastened around his neck and draped over his left shoulder, cradles a thyrsos in his bent right arm, and raises his left arm to the right.

B: Pompe (labelled; missing her waist), standing profile to the right, with her left foot slightly advanced, wearing a himation fastened at her shoulders, over a peplos, and a black hoop earring, holds a missing object in her right hand, at waist level, and a barbiton in her left hand; a balding Papposilenos, with a white beard, standing frontal, his head turned profile to the left, rests his bent right arm on a crooked staff, and holds the end of a wine skin, decorated with some ivy, held in his left hand and slung over his left shoulder bearded Dionysos (labelled; missing his upper torso and both arms), standing profile to the right, with his left foot slightly advanced, wearing a himation over a chiton, and an ivy wreath, holds a thyrsos upright in his upraised left hand, and holds in his lowered right hand a kantharos, just in front of his body; a female figure, perhaps Eleusis (incomplete label; missing the back of her head, face, shoulders, and upper arms) standing frontal, with her weight on her right leg, and her head turned profile to the left, wearing a himation draped around her lower body and over her left arm, over a medium-sleeved, patterned chiton, and a sakkos, holds in her lowered right hand an oinochoe, frontal but tipped forward slightly to the viewer, and a short (Eleusinian) torch in her slightly raised left arm, held to the right.

Collection History: Acquired through the Dr. Hazel D. Hansen Fund

Sources Used: Matheson 1995, 424, no. KLM 16; Matheson 1994, 358-59; Clinton 1992, 124, figs. 11-14; Hayashi 1992, cat. no. 102; Shapiro 1988, 206; I. and A. Raubitschek, "The Mission of Triptolemos," in Studies in Athenian Architecture, Sculpture and Topography Presented to H.A. Thompson. Hesperia Suppl. 20 (1982) pls. 15-16; LIMC, 4.s.v. Demeter no. 364 (L. Beschi); MuM 40 (1969) 65, no. 108.

(Amy C. Smith)