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Pelops on the summit of Sipylus,[1] above the Hieron of Mother Plastene" (v. 13). A little further on, he speaks of "the oldest known statue of the Mother of the Gods, to be seen in the district of Magnesia,[2] and of the rock that looked for all the world like
Fig. 9.—Topographical sketch of site north-west of Bournabat. Curtius, Beïträge, Plate IV.
a woman immersed in grief," which popular fancy identified with Niobe.[3]
- ↑ Weber translates Ταντάλου λίμνη by Tantaleis Harbour; but λίμνη is not synonymous with λιμήν, and, unless we suppose an error in the manuscripts, it must apply to one of the small lakes, the Kiz Gheul, or more probably still the Kara Gheul, actually found in the Iamanlar-Dagh (see Fig. 8).
- ↑ Ibid., iii. 22.
- ↑ Ibid., i. 21.
