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AND PLUTO EPIMACIIOS. 419
more tenderness and refinement of expression,
greater richness of line, and a more elaborate finish
generally; while, at the same time, they are less
grand and monumental in character, as indeed
might have been expected in the case of isolated
statues severally dedicated by private persons. The
style of the Cnidian fragments is peculiar, and re-
minds me of the Psyche at Naples, which has also
been thought by Millingen to present the charac-
teristics of Praxitelian art." The black lamps seem
to be rather of a later period tban the sculptures;
the masks stamped upon them resemble in style
the heads on the later tetradrachms of Rhodes, and
are probably of the same date.
The discovery of so many inscriptions and singu-
lar votive objects in this temenos naturally suggests
tbe inquiry whether they add anything to our pre-
vious knowledge either of the Eleusinia, the Thes-
mophoria, or any other mystic rites with which
Demeter and Persephone Avere worshipped. With
this view, it may be as well to recapitulate the
principal points ascertained by excavation.
The temenos was dedicated to Demeter and the
Infernal Deities, usually associated with her. These
were Persephone, Pluto Epimachus, Hermes, and
perhaps Ilekate and the Dioscuri. If my attri-
bution of the Demeter Achaea (Plate LVI.) be
admitted, avc seem to have in this temenos two
representations of the goddess,—the Mater Do-
lorosa, wandering disconsolatelv in search of her
daughter (with which must be taken in connection
u Millingen, Ancienl Onedited Monuments, Plate VIII, p. 15.
more tenderness and refinement of expression,
greater richness of line, and a more elaborate finish
generally; while, at the same time, they are less
grand and monumental in character, as indeed
might have been expected in the case of isolated
statues severally dedicated by private persons. The
style of the Cnidian fragments is peculiar, and re-
minds me of the Psyche at Naples, which has also
been thought by Millingen to present the charac-
teristics of Praxitelian art." The black lamps seem
to be rather of a later period tban the sculptures;
the masks stamped upon them resemble in style
the heads on the later tetradrachms of Rhodes, and
are probably of the same date.
The discovery of so many inscriptions and singu-
lar votive objects in this temenos naturally suggests
tbe inquiry whether they add anything to our pre-
vious knowledge either of the Eleusinia, the Thes-
mophoria, or any other mystic rites with which
Demeter and Persephone Avere worshipped. With
this view, it may be as well to recapitulate the
principal points ascertained by excavation.
The temenos was dedicated to Demeter and the
Infernal Deities, usually associated with her. These
were Persephone, Pluto Epimachus, Hermes, and
perhaps Ilekate and the Dioscuri. If my attri-
bution of the Demeter Achaea (Plate LVI.) be
admitted, avc seem to have in this temenos two
representations of the goddess,—the Mater Do-
lorosa, wandering disconsolatelv in search of her
daughter (with which must be taken in connection
u Millingen, Ancienl Onedited Monuments, Plate VIII, p. 15.