Cook, Arthur B.: Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 1): Zeus god of the bright sky (Cambridge, 1914)

84 The Precinct of Zeus Lykaios

eagles had been carried off from the precinct on Mount Lykaion.
However that may be, digging close to the northern base on the
mountain-side, Kourouniotes came upon an interesting series of
bronze statuettes illustrative of the cult1.

The earliest of them, which he refers to the seventh century B.C.,
is a clumsy figure of Zeus with short legs and long body. The
god stands erect. His raised right hand grasps a thunderbolt, his
outstretched left has an eagle perched upon it (fig. 51)2.

Fig- 51-

The second statuette shows Zeus striding forward with uplifted
right hand and extended left. In the former there was once a bolt,
in the latter perhaps an eagle (fig. S2Y- Similar statuettes, which

1 In addition to the bronzes here described there were found two figures of Hermes,
showing traces of Polykleitos' style ('E0.'A/9%. 1904 p. 200 ff. figs. 20—22), another in
the attitude of a runner (ib. p. 206 fig. 24), a coiled snake with two heads (ib. p. 211
fig. 27), and a votive atxKos [ib. p. 212 fig. 28). The fact that at least three, probably
four, statuettes of Hermes were found in or near the precinct requires explanation. Was
there a cult of Hermes on the spot ? For the dedication of one deity in the temple of
another see the careful collection of facts in W. H. D. Rouse Greek Votive Offerings
Cambridge 1902 p. 391 ff. But, as Miss Harrison has pointed out to me, T. Zielinski in
the Archiv f. Rel. 1906 viii. 321 ff., ix. 25 ff. shows that the Hermes of the Hermetic
cosmogony came to Kyrene from Arkadia. The remaining finds included ten engraved
rings, one of bronze, the rest of iron.

2 'E0.'Apx- 1904 p. 181 f. figs. 8—10. s Ib. p. 185 fig. 11.