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"Triptolemos in his winged chariot bringing wheat to
mankind", Water Jar or Terracotta hydria, c. 490 B.C.,
Greek, Attic, Attributed to the Troilos Painter -
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York.
Note: (extract from a museum explanatory note) Athens
controlled the sanctuary of Demeter (Ceres) at
Eleusis and claimed that the Goddess had given wheat
and the secrets of agriculture to Triptolemos, a local
prince - a common motif on Attic vases show a youth in
a winged chariot dispensing wheat to the world.
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