Zeus : a study in ancient religion . Fig. Fig. 836. the stair-like rocky slope (cp. Theophr. hist. pi. 3. 3. 4 cited supra). Immediately infront of the Cave numerous objects in bronze, silver, and gold were unearthed. {b) The sanctum, entered through a broad yawning aperture (950^ high), forms awide hall (25^ to 31^ across) with rocky walls showing no trace of artificial have carried down into it a thick bed of earth and stones. This containspatches of black carbonised matter, and has yielded the bulk of the articles in plate-bronze. {c) The sanctum sanctorum is a smal
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . Fig. Fig. 836. the stair-like rocky slope (cp. Theophr. hist. pi. 3. 3. 4 cited supra). Immediately infront of the Cave numerous objects in bronze, silver, and gold were unearthed. {b) The sanctum, entered through a broad yawning aperture (950^ high), forms awide hall (25^ to 31^ across) with rocky walls showing no trace of artificial have carried down into it a thick bed of earth and stones. This containspatches of black carbonised matter, and has yielded the bulk of the articles in plate-bronze. {c) The sanctum sanctorum is a smaller chamber (22 long, 8 broad, over 4*50™high), opening out of the sanctum but almost entirely dark. The floor is covered toa depth of several feet with a layer of ashes and charcoal, in Avhich were found fragmentsof animal-bones half-burnt, several ox-skulls with horns attached, and many terra-cottalamps. Below the Cave, on the western edge of the A^z^a-plain, are the foundations of aRoman house once occupied by the custodians of the sanctu
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