Persephone sitting on Demeter's shoulder 5th-4th C. BCE

"... bring Persephone to the starlight . . . you
shall never stumble, where I lead. . . . Take up the
torches, unknit your heavy brow."

-Philicus, Hymn to Demeter fragment (page 405, or 429/656, of pdf link below)

Demeter standing with Persephone sitting on her left shoulder and clasping her daughter's arm, and wearing a chiton with double overfold, and himation; a large vent hole in the back, remains of gesso and red pigment. Height 9 1/2 in. 24.1 cm. Professor Hans Erlenmeyer (1900-1967) and Marie Louise Erlenmeyer, Basel, collected between 1943 and the early 1960s (Sotheby's, London, Antiquities from the Erlenmeyer Collection, July 9th, 1990, no. 80, illus.) Ariadne Galleries, New York acquired from the above by the present owner in the early 1990s.

 

Source:

https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/antiquities-n09056/lot.76.html

 

Quote:

https://ryanfb.github.io/loebolus-data/L360.pdf