Zeus : a study in ancient religion . h pis. j, 2,viz. that the so-called Pnyx was an ancient sanctuary of Zeus Ti/tcrros with the so-calledbema for its altar, is nowadays discredited. But it is generally admitted that in imperialtimes, when the Pnyx had long ceased to be used for public assemblies, a cult of ZeusT^pLffTos as a healing god was here carried on. In the rock-cut back-wall of the Pnyx,between its eastern angle and the bema, there are more than fifty rectangular niches cutto receive tablets. Many of the tablets that had been in the niches were found by LordAberdeen in 1803 buried in
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . h pis. j, 2,viz. that the so-called Pnyx was an ancient sanctuary of Zeus Ti/tcrros with the so-calledbema for its altar, is nowadays discredited. But it is generally admitted that in imperialtimes, when the Pnyx had long ceased to be used for public assemblies, a cult of ZeusT^pLffTos as a healing god was here carried on. In the rock-cut back-wall of the Pnyx,between its eastern angle and the bema, there are more than fifty rectangular niches cutto receive tablets. Many of the tablets that had been in the niches were found by LordAberdeen in 1803 buried in the earth at the foot of the wall and are now in the BritishMuseum {Corp. inscr. Gr. i nos. 497—506, C. T. Newton in The Collection of AncientGreek Inscriptions in the British Museum Oxford 1874 i nos. 60—70, Corp. inscr. I nos. 147—156, 237, 238). They are dedications, mostly by women of the lowerclass, to ZeusT;//io-Tos [Corp, inscr. Att. iii. i no. 148 llvvrpocpos \ Ti/ztcrrw Aii | xcijOtcrT^pio;, gYTV>«J^Ytrf. Fig. 816. no. 153 OvTjaifxr) evxw I ^ TxpiffTio with relief representing a female breast) or to deos TxpKXTos {ib. no. 237 a 6€(^T\pi[a-Ta}]\ [eji^x^ with relief of part of a shoulder) or more often toT\l/ixw with relief of a pair of eyes ( no. 238 = 0. T. Newton loc. cit. no. 69), no. 150 OXu^uTrtdsT^/iVrco | evxw with reliefof a womans abdomen, no. 151 Tepria Ti/io-rw | euxw with relief of a face from thebridge of the nose downwards, no. 152 KXavdia ILp^irovaa \ euxaptorcSTi/iVrw with reliefof a pair of arms, no. 154 EuruxtsTi//^trrw eu|x(»7) with relief of a female breast ( = myfig. 816), no. 155 EiVtas Ti/[t(rrw] | €v[xn^] with relief of a female breast). Sporadic inscriptions attest the existence of the same cult elsewhere in Ross Die Pnyx und das Pelasgikon in Athen Braunschweig 1853 p. 15 cites three in-scriptions discovered in the foundations of a house on the northern slope of the Akropolis{Ann. d. Inst
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