![Fry in Eleusis, painting by Henryk Siemiradzki (1889).](https://members.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/Baubo.jpg)
![Fry in Eleusis, painting by Henryk Siemiradzki (1889).](https://members.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/article_category/public/Baubo.jpg?itok=POuP3bLt)
Baubo, Great Goddess and Demeter’s Female Fool in the Eleusinian Mysteries
In 1898, a group of German archaeologists working in the Demeter sanctuary at Priene unearthed a peculiar set of Hellenistic female figurines. The head of each of these figurines sits directly on her legs. Each figure also has long hair that drapes...
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