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

The Cult of Zeus Lykaios at Kyrene gi

An eagle above and in contact with a transverse lituos is said to
occur on a late bronze coin of Panormos (fig. 6i)\ But a better
analogy is afforded by the eagle on a pine-tree before the seated
figure of Zeus Aitnaios, which appears on a unique tetradrachm of
Aitne (fig. 62)2, or by the eagle on a crooked bough, probably
representing the oaks of Zeus Strdtios, which is found on imperial
bronze coins of Amaseia (fig. 6^)z. In view of the fact that the
eagle and the lituos were both attributes of Zeus at the precinct
on Mount Lykaion4 the combination of the two furnishes an addi-
tional reason for believing that the throned Zeus of Kyrene was
indeed Zeus Lykaios5.

Fig. 64.

In one detail the Zeus of these Cyrenaic coins differs from the
Zeus of the Arcadian coins. His free arm is consistently shown
resting on the low back of his seat in an attitude of easy indolence.
Now this is a trait which is not seen in any other representation of
Zeus on Greek coins. In fact, the only close parallel to it6 in the
whole range of ancient Zeus-types is the careless and yet majestic

1 P. Paruta Sicilia Numismatica Lugduni Batavorum 1723 pi. 3, 23.

2 Infra Append. B Sicily.

3 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Pontus etc. 8 pi. i, 15; 11 pi. 2, 7 ( = my fig, 63) Waddington
—Babelon—Reinach Morin. gr. d'As. Min. i. 35 pi. 5, 11; 40 pi. 6, 5. On the oaks of
Zeus ~ZrpaTLos see Class. Rev. 1904 xviii. 79 f., 372 fig. 5, Folk-Lore 1904 xv. 296, 306 f.

4 Supra p. 836".

5 Head Hist, num} p. 729, id.2 p. 869 says ' Zeus Amnion '—a curious blunder.
G Overbeck Gr. Kunstmyth. Zeus p. i6r.