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Fourth-century vase-paintings of Triptolemos may be sub-
divided into an earlier and a later group. The earlier group,
comprising two specimens referable to the first half of the century,

Fig. 162.

represents the initiation of Herakles, or of Herakles and the
Dioskouroi, either into the lesser mysteries at Agra1 or Melite2, or

Overbeck op. cit. Atlas pi. 15, 21, Reinach op. cit. i. 398, 1 ff. Overbeck ib. p. 540 n. d.
and p. 587 compares a late jasper at Berlin (Furtwangler Geschnitt. Steine Berlin p. 131 f.
no. 2913 pi. 25), on which Triptolemos appears in a chariot drawn by two winged snakes
and surrounded by enormous grains of corn. For similar coin-types see Overbeck ib.
p. 584 f. Miinztaf. 9, 4—6, Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Alexandria pp. 49, 71, 82, 120, 148,
163, 264 pi. 2, nos- 408, 582, 1332 (Alexandreia), ib. Pontus etc. pp. 156, 158 pi. 32, 11
(Nikaia), ib. Lydia p. 260 pi. 27, 4 (Sardeis), ib. Lycaonia etc. p. 195 f. (Tarsos).

1 Steph. Byz. s.v." A.ypa KaV'Aypat. The schol. Aristoph. Phut. 1013 states that the
fxiicpa ixvar-qpLCL were devised by the Athenians in order to provide for the initiation of
Herakles, who as a stranger could not otherwise have been initiated, but does not
mention Agra.

2 Schol. Aristoph. ran. 501,