Archaeological site
House of the Arrhephoroi
House of the Arrhephoroi: archaeological site of the ancient world (Attica, Greece).
Archaeological siteKind
–First recorded
–Last recorded
AthensNearest town · 1.3 km
On the map
Position: 37.972, 23.7263
Through the eras
Before 750 BC
Archaic period750 BC – 550 BC
Classical period550 BC – 330 BC
Hellenistic period330 BC – 30 BC
Roman period30 BC – AD 300
Late AntiquityAD 300 – AD 640
Middle AgesAD 640 – AD 1453
About the site
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.
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