Zeus : a study in ancient religion . e and six more at the western and acorns appear among the mouldings of the temple. Round the outside ofthe na6s-v^2iCx runs a frieze-like band (0*62 high), with a moulding above and a maeanderbelow, ready to receive inscriptions and already in part inscribed (inside the right antaof the pronaos and outside the north wall of the nads). Under the naSs is a chamber(i6i57x 9-I20) with a semicircular vault, reached by steps from the opisthodomos andprobably used for the safeguarding of the temple-treasure. It is possible that some dim 966 Appendix
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . e and six more at the western and acorns appear among the mouldings of the temple. Round the outside ofthe na6s-v^2iCx runs a frieze-like band (0*62 high), with a moulding above and a maeanderbelow, ready to receive inscriptions and already in part inscribed (inside the right antaof the pronaos and outside the north wall of the nads). Under the naSs is a chamber(i6i57x 9-I20) with a semicircular vault, reached by steps from the opisthodomos andprobably used for the safeguarding of the temple-treasure. It is possible that some dim 966 Appendix B recollection of this treasure lingered in folk-memory; for the peasants in comparativelymodern times, believing that the columns were cast in stone and full of gold, attackedthem with pickaxe and hammer, nor did they desist from their futile search till they hadfilled the temple with faggots and fired the lot ! See further C. Texier Description deVAsie Mineure Paris 1839 i. 95—127 pis. 23—34, W. J. Hamilton Researches in Asia.
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