Ninnion Tablet (Votive Plaque depicting the Eleusinian Mysteries)

National Archaeological Museum, Athens

The Ninnion Tablet, c. 370 BCE. Red clay votive plaque, the only surviving original artwork definitively depicting the Eleusinian Mysteries' initiation rites. Shows Iacchus leading a procession of initiates received by Demeter and Persephone. Found at Eleusis in 1895. Height 44.5 cm, width 33 cm. Photo by Marsyas.