Zeus : a study in ancient religion . p€iTr)s), which attainsthe height of 8060 ft, is occupied by a small Greek monastery of the Holy Cross (TimiosStauros). Mr T. Fyfe, who spent a night on the summit, tells me (Jan. 9, 1923) that ofthe monastery little now remains except the church. This has a western domed compart-ment (13 ft 6 ins in diameter) with a narrow door leading to an oblong nave (11 ft 6 inslong by 8 ft 3 ins broad) covered by an elliptical dome. Eastwards of this is the sanctuary,entered by a semicircular arch and containing an aumbry opposite to a shallow recessfor a seat. At the
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . p€iTr)s), which attainsthe height of 8060 ft, is occupied by a small Greek monastery of the Holy Cross (TimiosStauros). Mr T. Fyfe, who spent a night on the summit, tells me (Jan. 9, 1923) that ofthe monastery little now remains except the church. This has a western domed compart-ment (13 ft 6 ins in diameter) with a narrow door leading to an oblong nave (11 ft 6 inslong by 8 ft 3 ins broad) covered by an elliptical dome. Eastwards of this is the sanctuary,entered by a semicircular arch and containing an aumbry opposite to a shallow recessfor a seat. At the extreme east end is a built-in altar-table. The whole is very roughlyconstructed of rubble stone-work and is probably not very ancient, though the circular. Fig. 832. western portion is said to be older than the remainder. About 3060 ft below the summit,but still at an altitude of some 5000 ft, lies Nida. And the Cave in the western side of itsmountain-wall is used as a shelter both by shepherds and by travellers making the ascentfrom Anogeia (T. A. B. Spratt Travels and Researches in Crete London 1865 i. 9, Anogtia?,Qe supra \. 163 n. i). In the summer of 1884 a shepherd named G. Pasparaki,grubbing in the cavern with a stick, chanced to find fragments of terra-cotta lamps, a fewpieces of gold foil, and sundry small bronzes. These finds, being talked about, led to avisit the same year from E. Fabricius (Alterthiimer auf Kreta. II Die Idaische Zeusgrottein the Ath. Mitth. 1885 x. 59—72 with plan and 9 figs., id. Zur Idaischen Zeusgrotteib. p. 28of) and to a systematic exploration in 1885 by F. Halbherr and G. Aeraki underthe auspices of J. Hazzidakis and the Syllogos of Kandia (F. Halbherr Scavi e trovamentinell antro di Zeus sul
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