σκίρον[ῐ],τό ,
A. the large white sunshadewhich was held by the Eteobutadae over the heads of the priestess of Athena and the priests of Poseidon and Helios in the procession from the Athenian Acropolis to a place calledΣκῖρονorΣκίρον(q.v.) in a festival of Athena (cf.Σκίρα), Lysimachid. 23 ;white parasolcarried by the priest of Erechtheus in the festival of AthenaΣκιράςon the 12t h ofΣκιροφοριών, Sch. Ar. Ec. 18 .