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BUPHONIA

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 808 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BUN-CAL
BUPHONIA , in
Greek
  antiquities, a sacrificial ceremony, forming
part
  of the Dilpolia, a religious festival held on the 14th of the month Skirophorion (JuneJuly) at Athens, when a labouring ox was sacrificed to Zeus Polieus as
protector
  of the city in accordance with a very
ancient
  custom. The ox was driven forward to the altar, on which
grain
  was spread, by members of the family of the Kentriadae (from KEPT MN), a goad), on whom this duty devolved hereditarily.. When it began to eat, one of the family of the Thaulonidae advanced with an axe, slew the ox, then immediately threw away the axe and fled. The axe, as being polluted by murder, was now carried before the
court
  of the
Prytaneum
  (which tried inanimate objects for homicide) and there charged with having caused the death of the ox, for which it was thrown into the sea. Apparently this is an early instance analogous to deodand (q.v.). Although the slaughter of a labouring ox was forbidden, it was considered excusable in the exceptional circumstances; none the less it was regarded as a murder.
Porphyrius, De Abstinentia, ii. 29;
Aelian
 , Var. Hist. viii. 3; Schol. Aristoph. Nubes, 485; Pausanias, i. 24, 28; see also Band, De DiipoliorumSacro Atheniensium (1873).


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