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gift of a pe'plos1. Notice too that, just as the safety of Athens depended on
the snake kept in the Erechtheion2, so the safety of Tegea depended on a lock
of Medousa's hair which Athena had given to Kepheus son of Aleos". The
coins represent Kepheus' daughter Sterope receiving it in a jar (fig. 966)4.
And it is permissible to conjecture that both at Athens and at Tegea the
original talisman5 was the soul of the ancestral king living on as a snake13 in his
burial jar". The comparison will even take us a step further. The perpetual lamp
of the Erechtheion8 was but a civilised form of the perpetual fire burning on the
common hearth of a primitive folk9. Now Pausanias says: 'The Tegeates have
also what they call the common hearth of the Arcadians.... The high place on
which stand most of the altars of the Tegeates is called after Zeus Kldriosw :
plainly the god got his surname from the lot {kleros) cast on behalf of the sons
of Arkas. The Tegeates celebrate a festival here every year11.' Zeus Kldrios
gave his name to the first of the four Tegeate tribes Klareotis, Hippothoitis,
Apollonidtis, Athanedtts12. But the legend of the lot is probably due to a mis-

I Paus. 8. 5. 3.

- Frazer Pausanias ii. 168—170 collects the evidence. The precise position of the
snake's hole is doubtful (W. Judeich Topographic von Athen Miinchen 1905 p. 250 f.,
M. L. D'Ooge The Acropolis of Athens New York 1908 p. 209). H. N. Fowler in the
Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 1882—i88j Boston 1885
would seek it somewhere under the N. porch of the Erechtheion, a view approved by
M. P. Nilsson in theJourn. Hell. Stud. i()o\ xxi. 329. Not improbably it is covered by
the small round cistern of Turkish (?) origin still to be seen in the N.W. corner of the
crypt beneath the N. porch (HpaKTiKa rrjs eirl rod 'Epexdetov eiriTpoirris Athens 1853 P'- 3 -
F. Thiersch in the Abh. d. bayer. Akad. 1857 Philos.-philol. Classe viii pi. 3 will provide
a coloured plan and section. See also P. Cavvadias—G. Kawerau Die Ausgrabung der
Akropolis Athens 1907 pi. V, and the remarks of E. M. Beule L''Acropole (f Aihenes Paris
1854 ii. 251 f., D'Ooge op. cit. p. 207).

3 Paus. 8. 47. 5, cp. Apollod. 2. 7. 3, Phot. lex. s.v. tt\6kiov Topyddos, Souid. s.v.
tt\oklov Topyd5os, Apostol. 14. 38.

4 Cp. Brit. AIus. Cat. Coins Peloponnesus p. 203 pi. 37, 20, Hunter Cat. Coins ii. 163,
W. M. Leake Numismata Hellenica London 1856 European Greece p. 98, F. Imhoof-
Blumer and P. Gardner Num. Comm. Paus. ii. 108 pi. V, 22, Head Hist, num.2 p. 455 :
obv. Head of Eileithyia (?) with torch at her shoulder; rev. [TJETEATAN and type
as above described. In the field are two monograms.

5 For other classical examples see Frazer Pausanias iv. 433 f. and Golden Bough'*:
Taboo p. 317, ib:'\ Balder the Beautiful i. 83 n. 1.

8 K. Tiimpel in Roscher Lex. Myth. ii. 1108 says ' (36crTpvxos; oh vielmehr Schlange?'—
an acute suggestion.

7 Supra Append. H.

8 Strab. 396, Plout. v. Num. 9, v. Sull. 13, Paus. 1. 26. 6 f., schol. Od. 19. 34.

9 Sir J. G. Frazer ' The Prytaneum, the Temple of Vesta, the Vestals, Perpetual Fires'
in the Journal of Philology 1885 xiv. 145 ff., id. Pausanias iv. 441 f., id. Golden Bough*:
The Magic Art ii. 253 ff., ib?\ Adonis Attis Osiris15 ii. 174, id. Tote?nistn and Exogamy
London 1910 ii. 491, iii. 239.

10 The high place in question (684'" above sea-level) lies to the N. of the town and is
now occupied by the modern village of Mertzaouzi. Another height (706111) to the N.W.
of the town, the ancient citadel, is crowned by the village of Hagios Sostis (V. Berard in
the Bull. Corr. Hell. 1892 xvi. 541 with pi. 13).

II Paus. 8. 53. 9 f. cited supra p. 874 n. 2.

12 Paus. 8. 53. 6, supra p. 164 n. 6. G. Gilbert Handbuch der griechischen Staats-
alterthiimer Leipzig 1885 ii. 127 notes that, according to inscriptional evidence {Corp.