Demeter and Kore
Outstanding archaic bass-relief from Selinus depicting the Goddess Demeter driving a chariot drawn by four white rampant horses; she is leading back to the Olympus her daughter Kore, or Persephone, portrayed standing on the chariot, beside her mother.
Limestone bass-relief
From Selinus’ Acropolis
About 540-530 BC
Palermo Archaeological Museum “Antonio Salinas”
Scanned immage from a DIA taken in September 1995.
Demeter and Kore
Outstanding archaic bass-relief from Selinus depicting the Goddess Demeter driving a chariot drawn by four white rampant horses; she is leading back to the Olympus her daughter Kore, or Persephone, portrayed standing on the chariot, beside her mother.
Limestone bass-relief
From Selinus’ Acropolis
About 540-530 BC
Palermo Archaeological Museum “Antonio Salinas”
Scanned immage from a DIA taken in September 1995.