Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 1108
He endorsesthe words of Burckhardt, who says2: It is an irregular oval, about seven inches in diameter, with an undulatingsurface, composed of about a dozen smaller stones of different sizes and shapes,well joined together with a small quantity of cement, and perfectly wellsmoothed: it looks as if… … Fig- 773-color is now a deep reddish-brown, approaching to black. It is surrounded onall sides by a border composed of a substance which I took to be a close cementof pitch and gravel of a similar, but not quite the same, brownish color. Thisborder serves to support its detached pieces ; it is two…
Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature
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