Architecture of the Puuc region and the northern plains areas (Pyramids and palaces, monsters and masks: the golden age of Maya arquitecture I), 2-131. Lancaster: Labyrinthos Prem, Hanns J. (Hg) 1994
die Ursachen für diesen Fundniederschlag, denn neben römischen Funden, darunter die eindrucksvolle Maske eines Gesichtshelmes, kam ein aussagekräftiger Befund zutage: eine Anschüttung, deren archäologische
know, take an oath by the Petroma in the most important affairs. On the top is a sphere, with a mask inside ( echon entos ) of Demeter Kidaria" (see in Plut. Thes. 3, 6-7 the similar expression entos [...] entos echousan about the Theseus' stone). Let's now go back to the Pausanias' text: "This mask is put on by the priest ( ho hiereus ) at the Greater Rites ( en tei meizoni…teletei ), who for some [...] case, the Demeter Kidaria's priest, like Theseus, must lift up a stone to take some instruments: a mask to celebrate a kind of mystery cult and some rods to smite the underground folk. We can point out
widespread on Bosporan sarcophagi of the 1 st and 2 nd centuries. Predominant motifs are theatre masks, Gorgoneia, little Erotes riding on dolphins or geese, floral ornaments and huge acroterial palmettes
