#attic calendar eleusis

Ὀγδόη Φθίνοντος/ Ὀγδόη μετ’εἰκάδας, XXIII day
From today’s sunset: twenty-third day of Boedromion.
Epistrophè. The mystai return to their own City, in small groups and not with a procession; Strabo tells us that, on this day, ‘gephyrismoi’ took place at the passing of the Athenian Kephisos (Strabo IX, 1, 24). Meeting of the Sacred Assembly in Eleusis. (IG II2 1072, 1-3)

(Domitia as Demeter, Roman statue after a Greek original, 1st century CE. Now in the Musée d'Art Classique, Mougins…).