Sacred Athena

Athena and sacred officials

Black-Figure White-Ground Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Athena between Cocks and Hieropoioi (Officials), 500–485 BCE. The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.42.

Black-Figure White-Ground Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Athena between Cocks and Hieropoioi (Officials), 500–485 BCE. The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.42.

Caption note The officials are men (hieropoioi), not priestesses. Much of the scene wraps around the vessel: the main frontal view centers Athena and only partly shows the officials. Do not crop away peripheral figures.

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