The Tritopatores or Tritopatreis 113
antiquities1, states that the Athenians alone offered sacrifices and
prayers to the Tritopatores, when about to marry, for the procreation
°f children2. This statement is, in part at least, confirmed by
tangible traces left by the cult in question.
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Fig- 37-
Excavations in the Kerameikos at Athens, conducted by A.
Bruckner and G. Oikonomos from February 1909 to September
I9103, led to the discovery of an important group of remains in the
angle between the Road to Eleusis and the Street of Tombs. A
1 W. Christ Geschichte der grieehischen Litteratur* Munchen 1920 ii. 1. no n. 3.
2 Phanodem.4 {Frag. hist. Gr. i. 367 Midler) ap. Harpokr. s.v. TpLTOirdropes•.■ ■
$av65rjfj.os oe iv S"' rpijaiv on p,6voi ''Xd-qvaloi dvovat re Kai efix0VTaL aurots virep yev^crecoi
"'afSwi', Srav ya/xeiv /xeWuo-iv k.t.X. = Phot. lex. s.v. TpiT07raropes = Souid. s.v. Tpiro-
va-Topts = el. mag. p. 768, j ff. = Favorin. lex. p. 1775, 45 ff.
3 A. BrHckner 'ANA-KA*AI KEPAMEIKOT' in the llpaKT. apx- I910
Pp. 101—in with figs. 1—3 and pi. A' ( = my fig. 37).
C. III. 8
antiquities1, states that the Athenians alone offered sacrifices and
prayers to the Tritopatores, when about to marry, for the procreation
°f children2. This statement is, in part at least, confirmed by
tangible traces left by the cult in question.
l.__I
Fig- 37-
Excavations in the Kerameikos at Athens, conducted by A.
Bruckner and G. Oikonomos from February 1909 to September
I9103, led to the discovery of an important group of remains in the
angle between the Road to Eleusis and the Street of Tombs. A
1 W. Christ Geschichte der grieehischen Litteratur* Munchen 1920 ii. 1. no n. 3.
2 Phanodem.4 {Frag. hist. Gr. i. 367 Midler) ap. Harpokr. s.v. TpLTOirdropes•.■ ■
$av65rjfj.os oe iv S"' rpijaiv on p,6voi ''Xd-qvaloi dvovat re Kai efix0VTaL aurots virep yev^crecoi
"'afSwi', Srav ya/xeiv /xeWuo-iv k.t.X. = Phot. lex. s.v. TpiT07raropes = Souid. s.v. Tpiro-
va-Topts = el. mag. p. 768, j ff. = Favorin. lex. p. 1775, 45 ff.
3 A. BrHckner 'ANA-KA*AI KEPAMEIKOT' in the llpaKT. apx- I910
Pp. 101—in with figs. 1—3 and pi. A' ( = my fig. 37).
C. III. 8