Eleusinian Hydria Detail: Demeter and Metanira

Antikensammlung Berlin (Altes Museum)

Detail from an Apulian red-figure hydria by the Varrese Painter, c. 340 BCE. Depicts Demeter enthroned with Metanira, a scene from the Homeric Hymn to Demeter in which the goddess, disguised as an old woman, is received at the house of Celeus and Metanira at Eleusis. Antikensammlung Berlin (inv. 1984.46). Photo by Bibi Saint-Pol.