starting from the 7th century B.C. The excavation also found ornate lamps and fragments of ritual vases that were used in the worship of Demeter and Persephone at Eleusis, an ancient Athens suburb.

Persephone was the daughter of Demeter, the Goddess of the harvest, and lived with her mother on the Island of Sicily. A volcano on the island erupted and Hades emerged from his underworld kingdom.