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cannot safely pronounce what may have been the objects there
represented. Visconti1 supposes these females to have been the
Diphrophori, or carriers of folding seats, who were the wives or
daughters of sojourners at Athens, and condemned by Athenian
insolence to the servile office of waiting upon the wives and
daughters of the citizens, during the continuance of this sacred
ceremony.

1 Memoire, p. 83.