House of the Arrhephoroi

archaeological site · undated · location approximate

A house on the Acropolis of Athens, the residence of the Arrheporoi ('bearers of unspoken things'), two girls, who helped weave Athena's cloak for the Panathenaia festival and carried a box containing the 'unspoken things' down from the Acropolis to a precinct near the sanctuary of Aphrodite in the Gardens during the Arrhephoria festival. The house is possibly to be identified with Building III on the Acropolis.

Coordinates

37.97200, 23.72628

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)

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