[109] _C.I.A._ I. 141 κορὴ χρυσῆ ἐπὶ στήλης, _v._ Lolling, _Cat. des inscr. de l’Acropole_, No. 267 τήνδε κόρην ἀνέθηκεν ἀπαρχήν. [110] _Jahrbuch d. Inst._ II. 1887, p. 219. [111] _C.I.A._ IV. suppl. 373 and _Eph. Arch._ 1886, p. 81, l. 6. [112] Paus. II. 5. 1, III. 15. 10. [113] Paus. III. 21. 10. [114] Paus. I. 26. 5. [115] Paus. VIII. 2. 3. [116] Athen. XIII. 2. § 555 and Tzetzes, _Chil._ V. 19. v. 650. [117] S. Aug. _de civitat. Dei_, 18. 9 ut nullus nascentium maternum nomen acciperet. [118] Apollod. III. 14. 2 μετὰ δὲ τοῦτον ἧκεν Ἀθηνᾶ, καὶ ποιησαμένη τῆς καταλήψεως Κέκροπα μάρτυρα ἐφύτευσεν ἐλαίαν ἣ νῦν ἐν τῷ Πανδροσείῳ δείκνυται. [119] Herod. VIII. 55. [120] Hesych. Fig. 146 ἀστὴ ἐλαία, ἡ ἐν ἀκροπόλει ἡ καλουμένη παγκύφος διὰ χθαμαλότητα. [121] For full discussion of the fragments see Dr Th. Wiegand, _Die archäische Poros-Architektur der Akropolis zu Athen_, p. 97; _Das älteste Erechtheion und der heilige Oelbaum_, Taf. XIV. on which the restoration in Fig. 20 is based. The door really at the _end_ of the building is, perhaps by a not uncommon convention, brought into view at the _side_. Cf. the temple of Janus on a coin of Nero. [122] Unfortunately the site of the ‘sea’ has never been systematically excavated and examined. Professor Dörpfeld tells me that the cistern now visible is of mediaeval date. Until the mediaeval masonry is removed the precise character of the ‘sea’ cannot be determined. There was certainly no _spring_, the geological character of the Acropolis plateau forbids that, but a _well_ may exist. [123] Paus. I. 26. 5 ταῦτα δὲ λέγεται Ποσειδῶνι μαρτύρια ἐς τὴν ἀμφισβήτησιν τῆς χώρας φανῆναι. [124] Apollod. III. 14. 1. [125] Paus. I. 26. 5. The sea well at Caria was sacred to a foreign god called Osogoa, see Paus. VIII. 10. 4. It is worth noting that Semitic gods have ‘seas’ in their sanctuaries; Solomon’s temple had a brazen ‘sea’ and Marduk at Babylon had a _tamtu_ or sea, and curiously enough it was associated with the great serpent. See King, _Babylonian Religion_, p. 105. [126] Ovid _Fasti_, II. 667 Nunc quoque, se supra ne quid nisi sidera cernat Exiguum templi tecta foramen habent. [127] Serv. _ad Aen._ IX. 448. [128] Varro _L. L._ V. 66. [129] Vitr. I. 2. 5. [130] Paus. V. 14. 10. [131] _Od._ VII. 80-81, trans. Butcher and Lang. [132] _Il._ II. 546. [133] Herod. V. 82. [134] For Poseidon as the Tory-god I am indebted to Mr R. A. Neil’s edition of the _Knights_; see lines 144 and 551. [135] Paus. I. 26. 5. [136] _s.v._ Ἐρέχθευς, but the scholiast in Lycophron, _Al._ 431, says Ἐρέχθευς ὁ Ζεὺς ἐν Ἀθήναις καὶ ἐν Ἀρκαδίᾳ τιμᾶται; see Mr A. B. Cook, _Classical Review_, 1904, p. 85. [137] Apollod. III. 15. 1. [138] _Vit. X. Orat._ p. 843ᵉ. [139] Thucyd. II. 2. [140] Paus. II. 17. 3. For the whole subject of the importance of these priestly genealogies, see Professor Ridgeway, _Early Age of Greece_, p. 102. [141] Aristoph. _Eq._ 551. See Mr R. A. Neil, _ad loc._