Female Cypriot head (possibly Demeter) 5th C. BCE
"The time of Ceres' [Demeter's] festival had come [to Kypros], in duty kept by mothers every year, when, robed in white, they bring their first fruit gifts of wheat in garlands, and for nine nights count love and the touch of men forbidden things."
-Ovid, Metamorphoses 10. 431 (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st BCE to C1st CE)
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| Female Cypriot head (possibly Demeter) 5th C. BCE. Limestone 10 x 10 x 19 1⁄2 in (26 x 26 x 50 cm) |
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