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Τετάρτη Μεσοῦντος/ Τετρὰς ἐπὶ δέκα/ Τεσσαρεκαιδεκάτη, XIV day From today’s sunset: fourteenth day of Boedromion. The epheboi escort back the Sacred objects from Eleusis to the Eleusinion in Athens. “…it must be ordained to the cosmete of the epheboi to lead the youths at Eleusis in observance of the ancient customary rule on the 13th of the month Boedromion, in the usual form of the procession that accompanies the sacred objects, so that on the 14th they accompany back the sacred objects up to the Eleusinion in the City, so that there are more discipline and greater surveillance over the sacred objects, when the phaiduntés of the Two Goddesses, according to the traditions of the Homeland, announces to the priestess of Athena the arrival of the sacred objects and of the escort …” (IG II2 1078) (Caryatid from the roof of the small Propylaea in Eleusis, bringing on her head the ciste, holding the Sacred objects. Eleusis Museum) -- source link

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