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Title

East frieze of the Parthenon: The giving of the peplos. Zeus with Hera.

Alternative Title

The remaining part of this stone; here the Priestess places a basket on the head of a young Virgin (k), and puts a torch in her hand; another young female figure has a basket already placed on her head, and holds a tablet in her hand; there seems to be something carefully wrapt up in these baskets. The young figures are two Arrephorae, or Canephorae, referred to in page 8, note (b), who, at the close of the Festival, are dismissed from the Acropolis, after having remained there a certain time to work on the Pepulus. In this Plate are three divinities, perhaps Vulcan and Juno sitting, and Iris standing by her. Vulcan the limping God, seems to be distinguished by having one shoe much higher than the other.

Date

1787

Bibliographic Citation

SSTUART, James / REVETT, Nicholas. The Antiquities of Athens measured and delineated by James Stuart F.R.S. and F.S.A. and Nicholas Revett painters and architects, vol. II, London, John Nichols, 1787.

Table Of Contents

14

Area/Place

Greece
Athens
Attica

Subject

Art and antiquities

Collection

Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation Library

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