Two maidens (arthnoi) chosen each year to reside on the Acropolis and to weave the peplos that adorned the olive-wood statue of Athena Polias and tend her sacred olive tree.
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Grinder
The name for the girls who ground the meal for the cakes that would be offered to Athena on her
altar
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Foundress Bear
There was a sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron. Here a festival would take place that involved girls dressing up like little bears. All Athenian girls had to partake in this festival before they could marry
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Basket Bearer
Girls who would carry baskets, probably containing sacrificial implements, at occasions such as the Panathenaic procession.
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outrides/plyntredies
"Washing girls" whose duty it was to ritually scrub the olive wood statue of Athena in the sea
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Card 2
Front
The name for the girls who ground the meal for the cakes that would be offered to Athena on her
altar
Back
Grinder
Card 3
Front
There was a sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron. Here a festival would take place that involved girls dressing up like little bears. All Athenian girls had to partake in this festival before they could marry
Back
Card 4
Front
Girls who would carry baskets, probably containing sacrificial implements, at occasions such as the Panathenaic procession.
Back
Card 5
Front
"Washing girls" whose duty it was to ritually scrub the olive wood statue of Athena in the sea
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