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[2] These too were removed about the time of the temple's burning, and now the golden bowl, which weighs eight and a half talents and twelve minae,1 is in the treasury of the Clazomenians, and the silver bowl at the corner of the forecourt of the temple. This bowl holds six hundred nine-gallon measures: for the Delphians use it for a mixing-bowl at the feast of the Divine Appearance.2

1 μνᾶ= about 15 oz. Troy weight.

2 The Theophania was a festival at Delphi, at which the statues of gods were shown.

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