calaboose

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I have taken from the cystos, and after having tasted of it I placed it in the calathos.

From The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites by Wright, Dudley

To the extreme right of the spectator stands a little female statue of a goddess, in archaistic style, crowned with the calathos, and holding a sphere, probably of pomegranate fruit, to her breast.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by Symonds, John Addington

On her head is a calathos; a long tress of hair falls on each shoulder; she wears a long chiton with sleeves and girt at the waist, and a mantle.

From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.

A number of funereal bas-reliefs, in which the deified dead wears the calathos of Serapis on his head, prove the popularity of the belief in future life propagated by these mysteries.

From The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism by Cumont, Franz