Sacred Art & Iconography
Figurine of Demeter with Pig (Cleveland Museum of Art, 1926.521)
Terracotta figurine, Greece, Athens, 400s BCE, Cleveland Museum of Art 1926.521
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A terracotta figurine titled "Figurine of Demeter with Pig," from Greece, Athens, 400s BCE, showing the grain goddess holding a piglet, the animal sacrificed in her honor at the Thesmophoria festival. Held today by the Cleveland Museum of Art under accession 1926.521, Greek and Roman Art department, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund.
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Athens, Cities This source names Athens directly: "of Demeter with Pig," from Greece, Athens, 400s BCE, showing the grain goddess holding a piglet, the animal sacrificed in her honor at the Thesmophoria festival."
This source names Greece directly: ""Figurine of Demeter with Pig," from Greece, Athens, 400s BCE, showing the grain goddess holding a piglet, the animal sacrificed in her honor at the Thesmophoria festival."
This source names Greece directly: ""Figurine of Demeter with Pig," from Greece, Athens, 400s BCE, showing the grain goddess holding a piglet, the animal sacrificed in her honor at the Thesmophoria festival."
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The Cleveland Museum of Art's own title for this figurine names the subject outright, "Figurine of Demeter with Pig," a direct identification rather than a bare thematic tag.
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