hellenismo: “The Hierophant, the Hierophantides, the Dadouchos and the other priestesses wear
hellenismo:“The Hierophant, the Hierophantides, the Dadouchos and the other priestesses wear a myrtle-crown and for these reasons (Sophocles) attributes it as crown also to Demeter.” FGrHist 334 F 29 (Gold myrtle spray. The stem is made from gold sheet over a bronze core. There are three sizes of leaf: the two larger pairs are pushed into holes in the stem, the smallest pair inserted into the end of the tube. Inserted beside the pair of middle-sized leaves are myrtle flowers on long wire stems. These consist of a cup with a serrated top, a six-petalled flower, and a central rod holding a ring of twenty-four blob-ended stamens and capped with a disc. The discs have an inner and an outer ring of fine spiral-beaded wire, both of which were presumably once filled with enamel. Found in Eleusis, near a tomb, 400BC-350BCE. Now in the British Museum…) -- source link
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