Wall fragment from rather low on the vase. Max. dim. 0.093.
Triptolemos (segment of wheel and wing of throne) to right. Relief contour. Rim of wheel incised (compass-drawn). Dilute glaze: decoration at ... Second quarter of the 5th century B.C ... Matheson, "The Mission of Triptolemos and the Politics of Athens," Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 35, 1995, pp. 345--372. Dugas ("La mission de Triptolème d'apres l'imagerie athénienne," Melanges Rome 62, 1950, pp. 9--31 [reprinted in Recueil Charles Dugas, Paris 1960, pp. 123--139]) recognized three categories of this theme in Greek art: (1) Demeter giving instructions to Triptolemos, often with Kore present; (2) Triptolemos about to set off on his mission and a libation being poured; (3) Triptolemos and the Eleusinian divinities following his return to Eleusis.