The Alcmaeonid clan were one of the wealthiest and most politically important in Athens; a kind of Classical Greek equivalent ... passage to the Oracle at Delphi. When the Lydians returned to ...
The raking cornices end in volutes above which two rearing horses as akroteria (cf. the Athenian Treasury at Delphi, Fouilles de Delphes IV, 4, Pl. 87-91). The floor of the fountain-house must have a ...