 (Kerenyi).In the 5th-century bas-relief in the National Museum, Athens ("illustration"), which probably came from his temple, the boy Triptolemus stands between the two Goddesses, Demeter and the Kore, and receives from Demeter the ear of grain (of gold, now lost).Porphyry ("On Abstinence" IV.22) ascribes to Triptolemus three commandments for a simple, pious life