Detail of a Dinos with Triptolemos in the Getty Villa, July 2008

Mixing Vessel with Triptolemos
Greek, made in Athens, about 470 BC
Terracotta
Red-figured footed dinos attributed to the Syleus Painter

Inventory # 89.AE.73

Triptolemos, a prince of the city of Eleusis, sits in a fabulous winged snake-drawn chariot. Demeter, who appears behind him with stalks of wheat, gave him the chariot so that he could spread the knowledge of grain cultivation across the world. Her daughter Kore (also called Persephone), stands before him, presenting him with a liquid offering to wish him well on his journey.

Text from the Getty Villa museum label.