Geometric pomegranate from Eleusis Decorated Wheel-made The decoration is based on

The decoration is based on the use of clay slips that acquire their colour by firing

with added white for the flesh of one boy and gilding for the fillets

perhaps a mother

Attic Type B

his curled tail arching over his back

Geometric pomegranate from Eleusis Decorated Wheel-made The decoration is based onPersephones Pomegranate A handcrafted clay pomegranate inspired by an 8th century BCE prototype from the Archaeological Museum of Eleusis. The pomegranate is one of the central symbols of the Eleusinian Mysteries, closely associated with Persephone. According to myth, when Zeus commanded Hades to release Kore (Persephone) so she could return to her mother, Demeter, the dark robed lord of the Underworld cunningly gave her a delicious berry of the