 One interpretation is that it depicts an idealized version of the Panathenaic procession from the Dipylon Gate in the Kerameikos to the Acropolis.In this procession held every year, with a special procession taking place every four years, Athenians and foreigners participated in honoring the goddess Athena by offering her sacrifices and a new peplos (a dress woven by selected noble Athenian girls called ).The procession is more crowded (appearing to slow in pace) as it nears the gods on the eastern side of the temple.