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terracotta alone is in itself strong evidence that the
rites celebrated in the temenos of Demeter were
mystic; hut this presumption is further confirmed
by the occurrence of the calathns, the votive pigs,
and the calves, which may all he connected as
symbols with the Eleusinian or other rites of
Demeter or Persephone. The Hydrophori may
represent the daughters of Keleos drawing water
from the well at which the Demeter Acha3a sat.:i
Similar terracottas were found on the presumed
site of a temple of Demeter and Persephone at
Halicarnassus (Plates XLVI. 4, XLVIL), and in
their temple at Megapolis, in Arcadia, Pausanias
saw the statues of three nymphs bearing Hydrice?
The association of these Hydrophori with the wor-
ship of the Ssai may indicate some connection be-
tween this worship and the feast called Hydrophoria,
which seems to have been accompanied by offerings
to the dead.0
In a temenos sacred to Demeter and Persephone,
we find, as might be expected, votive pigs. Accord-
werke, Taf. cccx. fig. 1 ; Pinder, Ueber die Cistophoren,—Ab-
handl. d. k. Akad. d. Wiss. Berlin, 185G, p. 535.) Among tlie
numerous terracottas found on the presumed site of a temple of
Demeter at Halicarnassus, was a cistoplioros.
a Pausan. i. 39, 1. Homer, Hymn, ad Cer. 1. 105.
h Pausan. viii. 31, 2.
0 Preller, Demeter, p. 229. Pausan. i. 18, 7. Lucian, De Syria
Dea, xiii. Etym. Magn. p. 774. Plutarch, Vit. Sull. c. 14. It
appears from these passages that the Athenian Hydroplioria was
a mourning festival in memory of those who perished in the
deluge of Deucalion, celebrated in the month Anthesterion, on
the same day as the Chocs and Chytri, which were offerings of like
import, made only to the Chthonic Hermes and Dionysos.
terracotta alone is in itself strong evidence that the
rites celebrated in the temenos of Demeter were
mystic; hut this presumption is further confirmed
by the occurrence of the calathns, the votive pigs,
and the calves, which may all he connected as
symbols with the Eleusinian or other rites of
Demeter or Persephone. The Hydrophori may
represent the daughters of Keleos drawing water
from the well at which the Demeter Acha3a sat.:i
Similar terracottas were found on the presumed
site of a temple of Demeter and Persephone at
Halicarnassus (Plates XLVI. 4, XLVIL), and in
their temple at Megapolis, in Arcadia, Pausanias
saw the statues of three nymphs bearing Hydrice?
The association of these Hydrophori with the wor-
ship of the Ssai may indicate some connection be-
tween this worship and the feast called Hydrophoria,
which seems to have been accompanied by offerings
to the dead.0
In a temenos sacred to Demeter and Persephone,
we find, as might be expected, votive pigs. Accord-
werke, Taf. cccx. fig. 1 ; Pinder, Ueber die Cistophoren,—Ab-
handl. d. k. Akad. d. Wiss. Berlin, 185G, p. 535.) Among tlie
numerous terracottas found on the presumed site of a temple of
Demeter at Halicarnassus, was a cistoplioros.
a Pausan. i. 39, 1. Homer, Hymn, ad Cer. 1. 105.
h Pausan. viii. 31, 2.
0 Preller, Demeter, p. 229. Pausan. i. 18, 7. Lucian, De Syria
Dea, xiii. Etym. Magn. p. 774. Plutarch, Vit. Sull. c. 14. It
appears from these passages that the Athenian Hydroplioria was
a mourning festival in memory of those who perished in the
deluge of Deucalion, celebrated in the month Anthesterion, on
the same day as the Chocs and Chytri, which were offerings of like
import, made only to the Chthonic Hermes and Dionysos.