Zeus : a study in ancient religion . mulative, not consecutive, he infers that Palaia Gargaros is theruined town with walls of polygonal masonry still to be seen on the top of Kozlu Dagh10 kilometers east-north-east from Assos, that Gargaros on the plain below is the largefield of later ruins at the foot of the slope on which lies the Turkish town of Sazly, andthat the cape mentioned by Strabon is Katerga Burnu near Assos. 952 Appendix B W. Judeich Gargara und der Altar des idaischen Zeus in the Jahresh. d. oest. 1901 iv. Ill—125 figs. 160—163 replies that Strabons distances are reg
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . mulative, not consecutive, he infers that Palaia Gargaros is theruined town with walls of polygonal masonry still to be seen on the top of Kozlu Dagh10 kilometers east-north-east from Assos, that Gargaros on the plain below is the largefield of later ruins at the foot of the slope on which lies the Turkish town of Sazly, andthat the cape mentioned by Strabon is Katerga Burnu near Assos. 952 Appendix B W. Judeich Gargara und der Altar des idaischen Zeus in the Jahresh. d. oest. 1901 iv. Ill—125 figs. 160—163 replies that Strabons distances are regularly con-secutive, not cumulative. Hence Gargaros must be placed further east in the vicinity ofTschibne, and Palaia Gargaros should be identified with a ruined stronghold on OdjakKaya, the most westerly summit of the Dikeli Dagh, which rises immediately behindTschibne to a height of 780^. Palaia Gargaros (wrongly equated by Clarke with Lamp-oneia) was visited by E. Fabricius, who reports that it has terrace-walls of Cyclopean. Fig. 844. masonry well adapted for the erection of houses and an elliptical akrdpolis enclosed by aring-wall (now c. i™ high, c. 3 thick) some 500 round. On the west side of this wall isa gateway (2*35™ wide) with a square tower. Within, the akrdpolis is divided by anotherwall into two unequal parts. In the southern and smaller part, on the highest point of themountain, are the foundations of a big building, probably a temple. The fragments visibleare all of pre-Hellenistic date. When Palaia Gargaros was abandoned, the inhabitants ofthe new town found it difficult to keep up the cult on the mountain-top and chose a newsite for their worship on the southern point of the neighbouring hill Adatepe {c. 260°). The Mountain-cults of Zeus 953 Mysia Kyzikos^ Mount Olympos^. Pergamon^. Here Judeich discovered a rock-cut altar {loc. cit. p. in flf. figs. i6o view and i6i plan( = my fig. 845)) measuring c. 13^ x 15 and approached by three flights of step
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