Zeus : a study in ancient religion . NITflN {BriL Mzts. Cat. Coins Phrygia p. xxiv). FrazerPausanias iv. 192 comments: The legend points to the existence of a race of priestlykings or popes, with spiritual and temporal power, such as reigned at Pessinus, Comana,and other cities of Asia Minor (W, M. Ramsay, Historical Geogr. of Asia Minor,p. 146 J^.). The t^menos of Zeus, which occupies a square terrace (146*46 x i6296) contrivedon a natural hill-top, had a facade of twenty-two marble-clad arches with a broad stair-way (30 across) in their midst. This gave access to a square stod consisting of
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . NITflN {BriL Mzts. Cat. Coins Phrygia p. xxiv). FrazerPausanias iv. 192 comments: The legend points to the existence of a race of priestlykings or popes, with spiritual and temporal power, such as reigned at Pessinus, Comana,and other cities of Asia Minor (W, M. Ramsay, Historical Geogr. of Asia Minor,p. 146 J^.). The t^menos of Zeus, which occupies a square terrace (146*46 x i6296) contrivedon a natural hill-top, had a facade of twenty-two marble-clad arches with a broad stair-way (30 across) in their midst. This gave access to a square stod consisting of a doubierange of Corinthian columns with a handsome propylaion opposite to the stairway. Out-side the stod were gardens, exidrai, and statues. Inside the stod, on a stylobate of sevensteps, rose the temple, a beautifully finished Ionic structure in blue-grey half-marble,dating apparently from Hadrianic times (A. Korte Das Alter des Zeustempels vonAizanoi in the Festschrift fUr Otto Benndojfy^xen 1898 pp. 209—214 with pi. 11 ( = my. Fig- 853- fig. 853)) and in various points inspired by the Athenian Erechtheion. The building wasoctostyle and pseudo-dipteral with fifteen columns down the long side, two in the pronaos,and two in the opisthodomos. These last are of interest as having a band of acanthus-leaves beneath their Ionic volutes—a feature which W. J. Anderson—R. P. Spiers TheAichitecture of Greece and Rome London 1902 pp. 98, 154 refer to s. i and claim asthe origin of the composite order. The columns are fluted monoliths (height of shaft8*520^ : total height 9564*) with a small vase in relief at the top of each flute : sixteenof them are still standing, ten on the northern side 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
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