Choirine Relief

A small funerary relief of a priestess whose name was Choirine. She is depicted wearing a chiton and a cloak and holding a temple key, her badge of office. The figure is carved in low relief, slightly turned in three-quarter view, within a sunken rectangular panel. Her name is inscribed on the surround above. The stone would once have been painted and is thought to come from Eleusis, where it was probably set up at the beginning of the Sacred Way that led to Athens.