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THE  PANATHENAEA

THE NORTH FRIEZE : ACR (slab 6). The procession consisted of many bearers of offerings: women carrying baskets (called canephorae), or phials (libation vessels),or of oenochoees (jugs to pour wine)… and all the objects that  were to be used for the sacrifice.
The Metics (foreigners in Athens, therefore without citizenship) were admitted in the procession, men carried bowls , full of sacrificial objects. The women carried parasols, others (the diphrophorae) carried seats, certainly for the gods. Here , youths are carrying bowls "hydries" , full of libation wine, the last one is stooping to pick up his vessel unto his shoulder.
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