A small basket.[1]
At the festival of the Dionysia at Athens the well-born women used to be basket-carriers. The baskets on which they put the first-fruits of all [crops] were made of gold.[2] [The word] kanou=n [comes] from knei=n ["to scrape"], for in the basket the knife was hidden under the barley-grains[?] and the wreaths.[3] "The two of us having a basket and a pot and myrtle-branches wander seeking a place without trouble": Sophocles [writes this].[4] They are bringing the [things necessary] for a sacrifice, so that when they settle they may make sacrifice for the founding [of a city]. For they used to settle [sc. perform foundation rituals] with pots. But others say that they used to carry [things] to protect against the birds: instead of a shield, a basket, and instead of a helmet, a pot, lest the birds fly at them and strike them -- and the myrtle-branches, for scaring off [the birds].