Proclamation for initiates: Stoa Poikile

After the heralds of the two houses who ran the mysteries told prospective initiates the mysteries would be starting, those who had paid 5 obols(about a days work), had a mystagogos who had been initiated to vouch for them, and had no blood crime, would gather here at the Stoa Poikile just south of the Agora. On the steps of the painted porch the Archon Baselius would make the proclomation that the mystery festivals had begun