A maiden acolyte in the cult of Athena Polias on the Athenian Acropolis. According to Pausanias (1.27.4), two Arrephoroi lived for a year on the Acropolis and concluded their stay in a mystery rite called the Arrephoria: they carried unknown objects into an underground cavern and there exchanged them for other unknown objects. The lexicon of Harpocratium states (s.v. Arrêphorein) that there were four Arrephoroi and that two supervised the weaving of the Panathenaic peplos. This article is about the goddess Athena. ... The Acropolis of Athens, seen from the hill of the Pnyx to the west The Acropolis of Athens, seen from the north, with the restored Stoa of Attalus in the foreground The south wall of the Acropolis of Athens, seen from the Theatre of Dionysus The Acropolis of Athens, seen... Pausanias (Greek: ) was a Greek traveller and geographer of the 2nd century A.D., who lived in the times of Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius. ...