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XEE4107676: In Eleusis, Triptolem is about to climb on a wheeled throne, holding a scepter in one hand and ears of wheat in the other. He turned to the goddesses Demeter (holding a plow) and Coré-Persephone (holding two torches). Demeter teaches men to plow and Triptoleme goes to spread wheat - Attic crater with red figures, painter of Hector, 430 BC, Cabinet des médailles, B.N., Paris, Greek school, (5th century BC) / Bridgeman Images