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"tas parthenons ton metoikon skiadaephorein en tais rompais aenankazon." Its use seems to have been confined to women. In Pausanias there is a description of a tomb near Pharæ, a Greek city. On the tomb was the figure of a woman "themapaina de autae prosestaeke skiadeion pherousa." Aristophanes seems to mention it among the common articles of female use
"aemin men gar son eti kai nun tantion, o kanon, oi kalathiokoi, to skiadeion." It occurs frequently on vases, and is in shape like that now used. It could be put up and down. "ta d' ota g'an son, nae AL', exepetannuto osper skiadeion, kai palin xunaegeto." Arist. "skiadiskaen elephantinaen phorei gunaixin autos."
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