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70 CATALOGUE OF SCULPTTIKE.
offerings; the aged Athenian citizens who bore olive
branches, and were hence called Thallophori. It has
recently been ascertained that the selected maidens who
prepared the peplos (the Ergastinae, and perhaps the
Arrhephori) also took part in the Panathenaic procession.
An Attic decree of 98 B.C. records that these maidens had
performed all their duties, and had walked in the pro-
cession in the manner ordained with the utmost beauty
and grace (ir€7ro/«r€v[Ke>'ai Ka]ra to. irpoareTayfidva &s on.
x[aA\icr]Ta ko.1 €v<rx7j/*ovc[o-TaTa]), and had subscribed for a
cup which they wished to dedicate to Athene. After this
preamble the decree doubtless awarded certain public
honours such as are enumerated in a parallel inscription
found by Mr. Murray at Petworth. {Bull, de Gorr.
Hellenique, xiii., p. 169; Athenische Mitiheilungen, viii.,
p. 57.) At the Greater Panathenaia each town in which
land had been assigned to Athenian settlers contributed
animals to the sacrifice, perhaps a cow and two sheep.
The colonies also appear to have sent envoys who had
charge of the victims. Chariots and horsemen took an
important part in the procession, and an escort of Athenian
cavalry and heavy infantry completed the show. The
arrangements for the sacrifice were under the direction
of the Hieropoioi, and the multitudinous procession was
marshalled and kept in order by the Demarchs, the
Hipparchs, and by the heralds of a particular gens, the
Euneidae.
When, with a knowledge of these facts, we examine
the composition of the frieze, we may recognise in its
design the main features of the actual procession. In our
description we begin with No. 1, on the left of the east side.
We first observe Canephori and others leading the pro-
cession of which the main part is seen on the south side.
Next are persons, perhaps officers or magistrates re-
ceiving this procession. In the centre of this side a
offerings; the aged Athenian citizens who bore olive
branches, and were hence called Thallophori. It has
recently been ascertained that the selected maidens who
prepared the peplos (the Ergastinae, and perhaps the
Arrhephori) also took part in the Panathenaic procession.
An Attic decree of 98 B.C. records that these maidens had
performed all their duties, and had walked in the pro-
cession in the manner ordained with the utmost beauty
and grace (ir€7ro/«r€v[Ke>'ai Ka]ra to. irpoareTayfidva &s on.
x[aA\icr]Ta ko.1 €v<rx7j/*ovc[o-TaTa]), and had subscribed for a
cup which they wished to dedicate to Athene. After this
preamble the decree doubtless awarded certain public
honours such as are enumerated in a parallel inscription
found by Mr. Murray at Petworth. {Bull, de Gorr.
Hellenique, xiii., p. 169; Athenische Mitiheilungen, viii.,
p. 57.) At the Greater Panathenaia each town in which
land had been assigned to Athenian settlers contributed
animals to the sacrifice, perhaps a cow and two sheep.
The colonies also appear to have sent envoys who had
charge of the victims. Chariots and horsemen took an
important part in the procession, and an escort of Athenian
cavalry and heavy infantry completed the show. The
arrangements for the sacrifice were under the direction
of the Hieropoioi, and the multitudinous procession was
marshalled and kept in order by the Demarchs, the
Hipparchs, and by the heralds of a particular gens, the
Euneidae.
When, with a knowledge of these facts, we examine
the composition of the frieze, we may recognise in its
design the main features of the actual procession. In our
description we begin with No. 1, on the left of the east side.
We first observe Canephori and others leading the pro-
cession of which the main part is seen on the south side.
Next are persons, perhaps officers or magistrates re-
ceiving this procession. In the centre of this side a