Yarik Kaya - Cleft Rock - "throne of Pelops" is an altar or bench carved into the rock in the VII/VI century BC.
That Pelops and Tantalos once dwelt in my country [i.e. Lydia] there have remained signs right down to the present day. There is a lake called after Tantalos and a famous grave, and on a peak of Mount Sipylos there is a throne of Pelops beyond the sanctuary of Plastene the Mother. If you cross the river Hermos (Hermus) you see an image of Aphrodite in Temnos made of a living myrtle-tree. It is a tradition among us that it was dedicated by Pelops when he was propitiating the goddess and asking for Hippodameia to be his bride1.
Sources:
- Ekrem Akurgal, Ancient Civilisations and Ruins of Turkey: From Prehistoric Times Until the End of the Roman Empir, II ed., Istanbul 1970, p. 133
- G. E. Bean, Aegean Turkey. An Archaeological Guide, London, Ernest Benn 1966, pp. 61-63
- Pausanias, Description of Greece 5.13.7
Références
- ↑Pausanias, Description of Greece 5. 13. 7
