Floor masaics from Zeugma
Photographs: iefimerida, muratd, wikipedia
Showing posts with label Triptolemos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Triptolemos. Show all posts
Sunday, October 23, 2016
Friday, August 5, 2016
Ancient Eleusis
Coordinates: 38.040925 23.53858
Photos (2007) in Panoramio/Google Earth.
Measurements: only few in 2007.
The general ground plan of Eleusis is based on other diagrams.
However, some important changes have been made.
The great Eleusinian relief (450 BC),
National Archaelogical Museum of Athens.
Demeter (left), Kore and Triptolemos (center).
Height: 2.20 m (3φ MC).
Width: 1.558 m (3φ\/2 MC).
Ratio: \/2.
It was found in the small church of St. Zacharias,
where there was a temple of Triptolemos (Paus. A' 38.5).
Photos (2007) in Panoramio/Google Earth.
Measurements: only few in 2007.
The general ground plan of Eleusis is based on other diagrams.
However, some important changes have been made.
The great Eleusinian relief (450 BC),
National Archaelogical Museum of Athens.
Demeter (left), Kore and Triptolemos (center).
Height: 2.20 m (3φ MC).
Width: 1.558 m (3φ\/2 MC).
Ratio: \/2.
It was found in the small church of St. Zacharias,
where there was a temple of Triptolemos (Paus. A' 38.5).
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
The Eleusinian Mysteries
Caryatis Kistophoros from the Lesser Propylaea.
On her head she carries the kiste (a box) ornamented
with the Eleusinian symbols (a kernos, wheat and poppies).
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Prehistoric technology
The Mycenean Bull
Apis - Epaphos - Osiris - Dionysos
National Archaeological Museum of Athens
Friday, March 9, 2012
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Scythia
Demeter, Triptolemos, and Kore (Persephone)
National Archaeological Museum of Athens
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