The God Zeus wanting to identify the center of the world, released two eagles, one from the East the other from the West.  At the spot where their paths crossed he threw the Sacred Stone thus marking the navel of the world.  Legend has it the original stone landed here in the Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia.  The famous Delphic Oracle  Pythia took up residence in the city,  protected by her child the serpent, Python.  A young Apollo slew Python and eventually Pythia became his intermediary.  Her prophecies were deemed to be the word of The God Apollo.

Beside the Sanctuary is one of the most photographed  antiquities in the whole world.  The Tholos of Athena circa 380 B.C. stands on the site of at least two previous buildings.  There have been temples dedicated to female deities on this site since Mycenaean times.

The Sanctuaries of Athena and Apollo stand half a mile apart on the most stunning and awe inspiring of sites.  Mt. Parnassus towers above.  Opposite is Mt. Kirphys.  Below the cypress and olive clad valley of the river Pleistos and the plain of Itea.  The Gulf of Corinth glints in the distance

Citizens came here from all over Greece.  Payment of a tax entitled them to make animal sacrifices to the God Apollo and consult the Oracle. She spoke in riddles, translated into poetry then interpreted by priests.  The  great wealth accumulated  led to a succession of wars.  With the arrival of the Romans and Christianity, Delphi went into a decline, eventually losing  it's position as the center of world.

This wall is part of the market area immediately to he north of the Stoa of the Roman Agora. It is situated on the Sacred Way a paved road  which brought pilgrims up to the Temple of Apollo.