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Noelle Soren

The team excavating in the sactuary’s altar also found pits crammed with small terracotta statues which apparently had been placed around the altar by supplicants. Although Apollo himself was not represented anthropomorphically at Kourion (though he was represented by sacred standing stones, called baetyls), worshipers brought both human- and animal-shaped statues to the sanctuary to ask favors of the god.