Ur-Engur: A Bronze of the Fourth Millennium in the Library of J. Pierpont Morgan; A Brief Treatise on Canephorous Statues (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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It was not only at the Panathenzea that Canephoroe officiated. They seem to have been a common feature of the religious processions. We read of the Canephorce of Zeus at Haliartus in Boeotia. (plutarch, Amatoriae Narra tiones I.) The Scholiast on Aristo phanes (acharn. 242) speaks of the Canephoroe of Dionysius and those of Artemis are mentioned by Theocritus (id. II., The daughter of the house officiated as Canephoros when private sacrifices were offered.

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