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A Cave of the Nymphs on Mount Ossa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

A.J.B. Wace  and
M.S. Thompson
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On the north-west side of the great central cone of Mount Ossa a wide fissure runs right across the mountain from Mega Keserlì to Tságezi. On the south side of this fissure and at the base of the central cone lies the village of Spiliá, which is to be distinguished from another village of the same name near Laspochori at the eastern entrance to Tempe. To the north of the fissure rises a peak known as Pláka, which is the part of Ossa that directly overhangs Tempe. A little below the bare rocky summit of this peak, which rises to a height of at least 3,500 feet, and on its south side about an hour's walk from Spiliá, is a cave, which, though long known to the inhabitants of the district, has never before been visited by archaeologists.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 15 , November 1909 , pp. 243 - 247
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1909

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References

page 246 note 1 Cf. Rouse, Gk. Votive Offerings, pp. 46 ff.

page 246 note 2 Pan was worshipped on Mount Homole, the part of Ossa near Homolion, which is placed at Laspochori: Theocritus, vii. 104; Γεωργιάδης, Θεσσαλία p. 146.

page 246 note 3 For the cult of the Nymphs in general see Gruppe, Griech. Mythologie, pp. 826 ff.; Roscher, Lexikon, s.v., and Farnell, , The Culls of the Greek States, v. pp. 424 ff.Google Scholar, 458 ff.

page 247 note 1 Or Πυρί(ν)α[ς] as in I.G. ix. 2, 109 b, l. 48; cf. Πυρρίνας ibid. 281, 1. 2.