ARCHAIC PERIOD, CIRCA EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.

According to R. A. Higgins in Catalogue of the Terracottas in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Oxford, 1969, p. 299, terracotta figures of women holding pigs represent votaries with an offering to Demeter or Persephone. Although they are found all over the Greek world, they occur most frequently in Sicily.