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The autumn month Pyanopsion. A boy is carrying the Eiresione in the procession of Apollo or Helios and the Horai, who were vegetation deities. Dionysos is pressing grapes and threes a woman with a basket containing secret objects which was carried to the altar of Demeter.

Athenian and Attic calendar with signs of the Zodiac, personifications of the Attic months and representations or symbols of the festivals. Christians carved 3 crosses on top of the original motifs and the calendar is not whole. The names of the months are Attic. Our photos show parts of the frieze. Antique Greek frieze. West, frontfacade. #6 of 6. Panagia Gorgoepikoos / Mikri Mittropoli, Athens, Greece.