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thumb|right|250px|Site plan of the Acropolis at Athens - the Arrephorion is number 11. The Arrephorion or House of the Arrephoroi is a building conjectured to have been on the Acropolis of Athens based on a passage in Pausanias. The discovery of the foundations of a substantial building on the north-west edge of the Acropolis has led to the identification of this structure with the Arrephorion.

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thumb|right|250px|Site plan of the Acropolis at Athens - the Arrephorion is number 11. The Arrephorion or House of the Arrephoroi is a building conjectured to have been on the Acropolis of Athens based on a passage in Pausanias. The discovery of the foundations of a substantial building on the north-west edge of the Acropolis has led to the identification of this structure with the Arrephorion.

Pausanias reports that:

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Arrephorion” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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