A.the large white sunshade which was held by the Eteobutadae over the heads of the priestess of Athena and the priests of Poseidon and Helios in the procession from the Athenian Acropolis to a place called Σκῖρον or Σκίρον (q.v.) in a festival of Athena (cf. Σκίρα), Lysimachid.23; white parasol carried by the priest of Erechtheus in the festival of Athena Σκιράς on the 12th of Σκιροφοριών, Sch.Ar.Ec.18.
σκίρον [ι^], τό,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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