Votive Plaque (Pinax) with Persephone Making her Bridal Bed

c. 490–450 BCE height: 17.1 cm (6 3/4 in.) Source image
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Probably once brightly painted, this relief plaque belongs to a series of votive dedications made in Locri Epizephirii, near the “toe” of Italy, to the goddess Persephone (or Kore), daughter of Demeter. Following her abduction by Hades, god of the Underworld, Persephone regula...

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