Description: Attica, Eleusis, 350 - 330 BC. Triptolemos seated left in chariot drawn by two snakes / EΛΕΥΣΙ; pig standing right on mystic staff, head of boar and triskeles in ex.

Diameter: AE17 mm

Weight: 3,84 g

Grade: F/gF

Attribution: Agora 38a-c; Svoronos 103, 2-3

Commentary: rare; brown patina with bronze highlights

History: Eleusis was the place of Eleusinian Mysteries - an ancient religious initiations rite which originated before 1000 BC and came to an end at the end of 4th century AD.

Article Number: 059-10-07-42384