Arrephoros

Arrephoroi (Greek ἀῤῥηφόροι ) were selected girls who served in the cult of Athena Polias on the Athenian Acropolis as servants of of Athena. According to Pausanias, lived two each Arrephoroi for a year on the Acropolis in the so-called Arrephorion. Your service ended with the mysteries of Arrephoria. This brought the Arrephoroi on undisclosed Because two unknown objects in a cave of the sanctuary of Aphrodite in the gardens below the Acropolis. On their return they brought back two also unknown objects. Then they were released, two new maids were elected. The cult goes back to the rescue of Erichthonius, Athena grabbed a small box and so the Pandrosos, a daughter of Cecrops, and their sisters gave him with the bid, nor to open the box.

The festival took place on the 3rd or 5th Skirophorion. After Harpocration ever Arrephoroi four, two of which were destined to a year to weave the peplos of Athena was handed over to the relocation of the Panathenaic festival in the port.

The corresponding scene will be shown widely acknowledged to have to block V of the east side of the Parthenon frieze. Different theories are represented by Connelly (preparation of the sacrifice of one of the daughters of Erechtheus ) and Chrysoula Kardara ( representation of the first Panathenaic procession, in which the boy Erichthonios the peplos its predecessor Cecrops last).