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

88 The Precinct of Zeus Lykaios

A fourth figure, more clumsy in style, gives us Zeus standing
on a square base. He is clothed in a long himation. In his
clenched right hand he holds the remains of a thunderbolt; in
his clenched left, no attribute at all (fig. 56)1.

Fig. 56.

A few other fragments—a right hand grasping part of a bolt2,
the fore-part of a right foot3, and an eagle with spread wings
(fig. 57 a, by—possibly belong to a larger statue, or statues, of
Zeus, and may be assigned to the early fifth century5.

1 'B0. 'Apx- 1904 p- 193 fig- 15- 3 lb- p- !94 fig- 17-

2 lb. p. 194 fig. 16. 4 lb. p. 195 f. figs. 18—19.

5 It may here be mentioned that the British Museum possesses a silver ingot, said to

have been found in Sicily, which is inscribed AlO^AVKA on one side, T^VTON
on the other, and was doubtless dedicated to Zeus Lykaios by one Trygon {Brit. Mus.
Guide Gk. Rom. Life 1908 p. 37 f. no. 70, Inscr. Gr. Sic. Lt. no. 597). The romance
imagined by Roehl Inscr. Gr. ant. no. 523 is baseless.