carried or held protectively by another figure. The helping partner in the pair can be either another Niobid (according to iconography) or a different personage: a bearded man dressed in a cloak or a woman [...] südlichen Russland gefundener Kunstwerke, in: CRPétersbourg 1875 (St.-Pétersbourg 1876) 5–91 pl. 1, 1–20. 2, 1. ↩ C. Watzinger, Griechische Holzsarkophage aus der Zeit Alexanders des Grossen (Leipzig [...] from the respective tomb contexts, such as coins or glass vessels. From this external contextual evidence the appliqués can be dated between the end of the 1 st and the middle of the 2 nd century. A

the Thracians was emphasised or the communal participation; both were. Sokrates also mentions a torch-race. Usually torch-races were on foot, like at the Prometheia or the Hephaisteia; yet the one [...] to be asked, as I read it, was: either 1) ‘whether it is necessary that a woman who is to be priestess and a man who is to be priest be chosen from the Thracians or from all Athenians’, as has already been [...] partly suggested by Robert Parker (1996, 172) or: 2) ‘whether it is necessary that a woman who is to be priestess has to answer to a certain qualification or not’. In the second option, the embassy to be