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ii. 890 n. 2 Mt Taygeton. D. W. Freshfield Below the Snow Line London 1923
pp. 124—128 describes his ascent of this mountain (7874 ft.): 'The highest top of
Taygetus lies some twelve miles south-south-west of Sparta. The peasants who make
a pilgrimage annually to the chapel on the summit in the month of August follow a path
which climbs to the village of Anavryti, on the middle shelf of the mountain, and then
slants upwards to a gap in one of the spurs and across tlie upper slopes to the saddle
north of the culminating crest____The top of Taygetus has been curiously treated. When
I reached what had from a distance looked like a dilapidated stone man it proved to be
the ridge of the roof of a small chapel. The rest was buried under snow-drifts, which
choked up a little stone enclosure and several cells built round it____I envied the pilgrims
who watch sunsets and moonrises here in August. It was just mid-day when I arrived,
and local mists were playing round the mountain, which promised, and before long
produced, a brief thunder shower. The distant panorama was imperfect; but I saw
a great deal under beautiful shifting lights. To the north the eyes overlooked all
Peloponnesus to the vapours that rested on its northern heights. To the west the
green hills of Messenia glowed in sunshine; its great bay swept round in a wonderful
curve, and beyond lay Pylos and the distant islands. At our very feet a little town hung
over its haven, a tiny bay of the Gulf of Kalamata. To the south the long promontory
of Cape Matapan stretched out, peak beyond peak, all far below me. A transparent
opalescent mist hid Crete, but only veiled Cythera.'
ii. 894 n. 3 Zeus Helldnios. J. P. Harland Prehistoric Aigina Paris 1925 pp. 27—29,
4°f-> 53. 55 f-> 67i 82. ff. attributes the cult of Zeus Helldnios to Achaeans of the period
Melladic iii (1400—1100 B.C.). Summary by S. Reinach in the Rev. Arch. 1927 i. 252.
J. P. Harland 'An Inscribed Hydria in Aegina' in the Am. Jonrn. Arch. 1925 xxix.
76—78 fig. 1 f. publishes a bronze hydria found by L. Curtius (1906) in an ancient
cistern high up on Mt Oros. Round the rim of this beautiful vessel runs a dedication in
lettering of c. 47o h.c. PAAOO/^ • EKE^OEA^E^ • AA/EOE^ ! HVIOI |
PPOKAEOS : HEAAAA^IOI ; All 'Plathon (and) Echesthenes, sons of Prokles,
dedicated (this) to Helldnios Zeus.' Id. Prehistoric Aigina Paris 1925 p. 83 adds:
' Professor Ludwig Curtius wrote me that a roof tile with several letters of the god's
name had been found on this site.'
G. Welter 'Der Heilige Berg des Zeus Hellanios' in the Jahrb. d. Deutsch. Arch.
Inst. 1938 liii Arch. Anz. pp. 8—16 republishes this hydria (fig. 3 f.) and goes on to
describe his own excavations of August 1933. He laid bare a terrace, approached by
steps and partly cut out of the rocks, on the northern slope of the Oros (fig. 5 f.). On
the terrace are the foundations of a hostel for pilgrims, which could be dated by sherds
of 'Megarian' bowls, to the Pergamene period of Aigina (210—133 b.c.). The actual
altar of Zeus Helldnios occupied the highest point of the Oros, where there had been a
Late Mycenaean settlement (fig. 7 plan). The summit on its west and south sides was
partially encircled by a retaining wall and built up to form a round platform comparable
with the yr)s x&Ma (Paus. 8. 38. 7) on the top of Mt Lykaion (supra i. 81 ff.). It was
further equipped in Hellenistic times with hostels and stoal, suggestive of games perhaps
held below on the level at the foot of the terrace. Bronze coins of Pergamene date,
struck either at Pergamon or more probably in Aigina, have obv. the head of Aiakos,
rev. A I I T I I N H nude archaic Apollon advancing to right with filleted bay-branch
and strung bow (Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Attica etc. p. 145 pi. 26, 4 f., H. Thiersch
'Aginetische Studien' in the Nachr. d. Gesellsch. d. Wiss. Gbttingen Phil.-hist. Classe
1928 pp. 141—147 pis. 1—3). Aiakos was appropriate as the forefather both of the
Aeginetans and, through Pergamos, of the Pergamenes. G. Welter Aigina Berlin 1938
includes p. 91 f. a brief chapter on 'Die Kultstiitte des Zeus Hellanios auf dem Oros'
and p. 122 the 'Fasti' of the site. The Late Mycenaean settlement on the summit was
vacated c. 1225 b.c. 'Geometric' sherds found there imply the arrival of the cult, which
thenceforward was kept up throughout the whole classical period. The lay-out of the
terrace and the building of its hostel may be dated c. 170 b.c. From the ruins of this
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ii. 890 n. 2 Mt Taygeton. D. W. Freshfield Below the Snow Line London 1923
pp. 124—128 describes his ascent of this mountain (7874 ft.): 'The highest top of
Taygetus lies some twelve miles south-south-west of Sparta. The peasants who make
a pilgrimage annually to the chapel on the summit in the month of August follow a path
which climbs to the village of Anavryti, on the middle shelf of the mountain, and then
slants upwards to a gap in one of the spurs and across tlie upper slopes to the saddle
north of the culminating crest____The top of Taygetus has been curiously treated. When
I reached what had from a distance looked like a dilapidated stone man it proved to be
the ridge of the roof of a small chapel. The rest was buried under snow-drifts, which
choked up a little stone enclosure and several cells built round it____I envied the pilgrims
who watch sunsets and moonrises here in August. It was just mid-day when I arrived,
and local mists were playing round the mountain, which promised, and before long
produced, a brief thunder shower. The distant panorama was imperfect; but I saw
a great deal under beautiful shifting lights. To the north the eyes overlooked all
Peloponnesus to the vapours that rested on its northern heights. To the west the
green hills of Messenia glowed in sunshine; its great bay swept round in a wonderful
curve, and beyond lay Pylos and the distant islands. At our very feet a little town hung
over its haven, a tiny bay of the Gulf of Kalamata. To the south the long promontory
of Cape Matapan stretched out, peak beyond peak, all far below me. A transparent
opalescent mist hid Crete, but only veiled Cythera.'
ii. 894 n. 3 Zeus Helldnios. J. P. Harland Prehistoric Aigina Paris 1925 pp. 27—29,
4°f-> 53. 55 f-> 67i 82. ff. attributes the cult of Zeus Helldnios to Achaeans of the period
Melladic iii (1400—1100 B.C.). Summary by S. Reinach in the Rev. Arch. 1927 i. 252.
J. P. Harland 'An Inscribed Hydria in Aegina' in the Am. Jonrn. Arch. 1925 xxix.
76—78 fig. 1 f. publishes a bronze hydria found by L. Curtius (1906) in an ancient
cistern high up on Mt Oros. Round the rim of this beautiful vessel runs a dedication in
lettering of c. 47o h.c. PAAOO/^ • EKE^OEA^E^ • AA/EOE^ ! HVIOI |
PPOKAEOS : HEAAAA^IOI ; All 'Plathon (and) Echesthenes, sons of Prokles,
dedicated (this) to Helldnios Zeus.' Id. Prehistoric Aigina Paris 1925 p. 83 adds:
' Professor Ludwig Curtius wrote me that a roof tile with several letters of the god's
name had been found on this site.'
G. Welter 'Der Heilige Berg des Zeus Hellanios' in the Jahrb. d. Deutsch. Arch.
Inst. 1938 liii Arch. Anz. pp. 8—16 republishes this hydria (fig. 3 f.) and goes on to
describe his own excavations of August 1933. He laid bare a terrace, approached by
steps and partly cut out of the rocks, on the northern slope of the Oros (fig. 5 f.). On
the terrace are the foundations of a hostel for pilgrims, which could be dated by sherds
of 'Megarian' bowls, to the Pergamene period of Aigina (210—133 b.c.). The actual
altar of Zeus Helldnios occupied the highest point of the Oros, where there had been a
Late Mycenaean settlement (fig. 7 plan). The summit on its west and south sides was
partially encircled by a retaining wall and built up to form a round platform comparable
with the yr)s x&Ma (Paus. 8. 38. 7) on the top of Mt Lykaion (supra i. 81 ff.). It was
further equipped in Hellenistic times with hostels and stoal, suggestive of games perhaps
held below on the level at the foot of the terrace. Bronze coins of Pergamene date,
struck either at Pergamon or more probably in Aigina, have obv. the head of Aiakos,
rev. A I I T I I N H nude archaic Apollon advancing to right with filleted bay-branch
and strung bow (Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Attica etc. p. 145 pi. 26, 4 f., H. Thiersch
'Aginetische Studien' in the Nachr. d. Gesellsch. d. Wiss. Gbttingen Phil.-hist. Classe
1928 pp. 141—147 pis. 1—3). Aiakos was appropriate as the forefather both of the
Aeginetans and, through Pergamos, of the Pergamenes. G. Welter Aigina Berlin 1938
includes p. 91 f. a brief chapter on 'Die Kultstiitte des Zeus Hellanios auf dem Oros'
and p. 122 the 'Fasti' of the site. The Late Mycenaean settlement on the summit was
vacated c. 1225 b.c. 'Geometric' sherds found there imply the arrival of the cult, which
thenceforward was kept up throughout the whole classical period. The lay-out of the
terrace and the building of its hostel may be dated c. 170 b.c. From the ruins of this