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For the Croesus bowl in its ‘angle’ cf. viii. 122. 1. Stein thinks the reference is to the projecting ‘angle’, formed by one of the two antae, with which the walls of the cella ended in front towards the πρόναος.

γάρ. H. knows its size, because it was filled at the Theophania, a spring festival, which commemorated at Delphi the reappearance of the Sun-god.

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