Zeus : a study in ancient religion . 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 di
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . 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 steps on the. Fig. 845. west and south sides. A modern cistern constructed on the spot is believed to work cureswith its water and probably preserves the sanctity of the ancient altar. ^ Zeus TypiffTos and Geos Ti/zio-ros {supra p. 881 n. o no. (21)). 2 Zeus OXiy/CiTTios {Mnaseas/ra^. 30 [Frag. hist. Gr. iii. 154 Miiller) ap. schol. T. //.?20. 234 Mja<reas IX€V (prjaLV virb TavraXov ripTrdcrdai (sc. TavvfjLrjdTju) /cai iv KvvrjyefflipireffdvTa TarivaL iv t(^ Mvaiip OXiJ/xttc^ /card to Upov rod ^OXvfnriov Atos). Supra i. 116n. 8, 124. ^ The district of Pergamon was of old sacred to the Kabeiroi (Paus. i. 4. 6 ^^^ 5^vifiovTaL ol HepyafJLTjvoi, Ka^eipuv lepdv <pa(nv elvai to dpxcuov), who as the most ancientdeities of the land were worshipped with mystic rites and invoked in stormy weather(Aristeid. or. 55 (ii. 709 Dindorf) tovt6 /xoi (Grauert cj. fi^v) irpecr^vTaTOL baiixoviov ipravda\4yovTaL yeviadai Kd^eipoi, Kal reXerai toijtols Kai nvcT-qpia, d ToaaiJTTjp Icrx^v ^x^-^ irewia-re
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