As the files converge on the east frieze we encounter the first women celebrants E2–27, E50–51, E53–63. The priestesses carry the sacrificial instruments and paraphernalia including the "phiale" (phial or jug), "oinochoai" (wine jars), "thymiaterion" (incense burner), and in the case of E50–51, evidently they have just handed the marshal E49 a "kanoun", making the girl the kanephoros. The next groups E18–23, E43–46, are problematic. Six on the left and four on the right, if one does not count two other figures who may or may not be marshals, then this group might be taken to be the ten eponymous heroes who gave their names to the ten tribes. Their proximity to the deities indicates their importance, but selecting differently, then nine of them may be the archons of the polis or "athlothetai" officials who managed the procession; there is insufficient iconographic evidence to determine which interpretation is correct.