Zeus : a study in ancient religion . er level by an extra wall(r—B—A), part of which (B—A) was specially strong. And on the southern side thefoundations were strengthened by a retaining wall (E—Z). Miscellaneous finds (at Q andelsewhere) included the relief of a griffin in limestone, animals in clay (leonine foot, pigssnout), the head of a dove (?) in Pentelic marble, etc. No Mycenaean vases were discovered,but fragments of large pithoi with impressed geometric designs, also Corinthian ware insome abundance, and sherds of black-figured and red-figured technique. A few brokenvases etc. were ins
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . er level by an extra wall(r—B—A), part of which (B—A) was specially strong. And on the southern side thefoundations were strengthened by a retaining wall (E—Z). Miscellaneous finds (at Q andelsewhere) included the relief of a griffin in limestone, animals in clay (leonine foot, pigssnout), the head of a dove (?) in Pentelic marble, etc. No Mycenaean vases were discovered,but fragments of large pithoi with impressed geometric designs, also Corinthian ware insome abundance, and sherds of black-figured and red-figured technique. A few brokenvases etc. were inscribed {Corp, inscr. Gr. sept, i nos. 3492—3497), of which the most important were a kylix-ioot incised CJ^E^ or cj5E^ = [Ai6s A]0e(T[toi], or [Ad A]0e<r[^(^] (no. 3494) and a stone slab reading H^PO = Hpa;[os] orHpw[t] (no. 3492). See further D. Philios in the E0. Apx- 1890 pp. 35 fif. (with careful plans and illustrations:pi. 4, 3 = my fig. 822), 63 f., H. G. Lolling ib. 1890 p. 55 ff., D. Philios in the Ilpa/cr. dpx-. 1 Fig. 822. er. 1889 p. 26, W. Doerpfeld in the Ath, Mitth. 1889 xiv. 327, and Frazer Pausaniasii. 550 f. The interpretation of the western group of buildings is disputed. H. G. Lolling heldthat it was originally a private dwelling-house, to which a sanctuary had afterwards beenattached; D. Philios, that it was from the first an edifice containing chambers for thepriest and the temple-attendants (cp. Paus. 10. 34. 7). I incline to think that the chamberswith stone couches (A, 7, 8) were used for incubation, and that the rooms with circular The Mountain-cults of Zeus 897 Mount Gerania(?)i. Attike The Akropolis at Athens 2. ^^ The Pnyx at Athens^.Mount Anchesmos *.Mount Hymettos^Mount Parnes^. pits and rectangular bases (9, 10) betoken a chthonian cult. On this showing the worshipof Zeus A0^(nos was associated with that of a local Megarian hero (cp. F. Pfister DerReliquienkult im Altertu?n Giessen 1909 i. i ff. * Die mythische Konigsliste von Megara)
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