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flanked by two figures of humped bulls on large pedestals. The
whole complex of marble was reckoned one of the wonders of the
world1. Built into and concealed by its foundations was a previously
existing building with an apse at one end2. It bears so close a
resemblance to the apsidal Kabeirion of Samothrace3 that I would
venture to see in it a shrine of the Kabeiroi, who appear on another
coin of Pergamon4 and are said to have witnessed the birth of Zeus
on this very hill5. But, if the site of the great altar was once
occupied by a Kabeirion, where was the former altar of Zeus ?

Fig. 89.

Just where we should have expected it to be—higher up, on the
actual summit. J. Schrammen observes that the extreme point
still shows traces of a square structure (fig. 8c;)6, and acutely

1 Ampel. 8. 14.

2 Pergamon iii. i. 83 ff. figs. Atlas pi. 2.

3 A. Conze—A. Hauser—G. Niemann Archaeologische Untersuchungen auf Samo-
thrake Wien 1875 p. 45 ff. figs. 15—29 pis. 11—52, 69 f., A. Conze—A. Hauser—
O. Benndorf Neue archaeologische Untersuchungen auf Samothrake Wien 1880 p. 19 fif.
figs. 4—8 pis. 2—16, Durm Baukunst d. Gr.2 pp. 195, 231, id.'d p. 424.

4 Zeitschr. f. Num. 1901 xxiv. 120 f., Head Hist, num? p. 536.

5 Supra p. 110 n. 5.

6 Pergamon iii. 1. 741". fig.