Newton, Charles T. [Editor]; Pullan, Richard P. [Editor]: A history of discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus and Branchidae (Band 2, Teil 2) (London, 1863)

422 TEMENOS OF DEMETER, PERSEPHONE,

ing to Clemens Alexandrinus, the chasm through
which Persephone was carried off by Pluto, swal-
lowed up at the same moment the pigs of Eubuleus;
and this would seem, from the words of Clemens, to
have been one of the incidents of the rape of Pro-
serpine, which was symbolically represented in the
Thesmophoria by throwing live pigs into the psyapa
xa) avaxropa.'1 (See ante, p. 891.) The marble calves
found with, the pigs were doubtless dedicated to
Persephone, to whom the cow was sacred at Cyzicus
and in Arcadia.0

The pairs of marble breasts were probably symbols
of fertility, and, as such, appropriate to Demeter.
Lastly, in the dedication, y^aoirrreia. xa) IxtIixoltdol
(Plate LXXXIX., No. 18), we may recognize thank-
offerings and sin-offerings, corresponding perhaps
to the Athenian rites called 7rpo^apia-Trjoia, and

It will be seen from the foregoing recapitulation,
that among the objects discovered in the tcmenos,
we find no trace of the myth of Triptolemus, nor
any emblem which can be called Dionysiac, if Ave

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e Pausan. ii. 35, § 4, in reference to the peculiar rites with which
cows were sacrificed to Demeter Chthonia at Hermione. At
Cyzicus a black heifer was sacrificed to Persephone.—Appian,
Mithridat. lxxv. Cf. Clem. Alex. Cohort, p. 14, for the myth of
the tauromorphic child of Persephone by Zens.

f Hermann, Gottesdienstl. Alterthmner, § 56, IS. Gerhard,
Authesterien, p. 207, note 127.