...writes: There is also a building on the Acropolis called the Erechtheum. Before the entrance there is an altar of Supreme Zeus, where they sacrifice...done so they are forbidden by custom to make use of wine.1 On the Acropolis, too, there was a sacred serpent, which Herodotus says was fed monthly with...

...Erechtheum (1.26.5), Pausanias again gives precise information about the ritual niceties of its altars: There is also a building called the Erechtheum. Before the entrance is an altar of Zeus the Most High, on which they never sacrifice a living creature, but offer cakes, not being wont...