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

g6 Zeus-like deities in wolf-skin garb

of the man and the woman, for the presence of Hermes the
'Conductor of Souls,' for the reverential attitude of the worshipper,
and for her gift of a pomegranate. Finally, just as the funereal

Fig. 69.

reliefs tended towards simplification of type1, so a 'Cyrenaic' kylix
in the National Museum at Athens reduces the whole scene of the
enthroned dead to a mere head and shoulders (fig. 6c/)2.

(g) Zeus-like deities in wolf-skin garb.

A small bronze statuette, found in the Rhine-district and pro-
cured by F. G. Welcker for the Museum of National Antiquities at
Bonn, was believed by J. Overbeck to represent Zeus Lykaios. The
god stands erect holding a deep bowl or pot in his outstretched
right hand and leaning with his raised left hand on some object
now lost. He is clad over head, shoulders, and back in a wolf-skin,
the fore-paws of which have been cut off, sewn on inside, and

1 M. N. Tod and A. J. B. Wace op. cit. p. 107 f.

2 J. P. Droop in the Journ. Hell. Stud. 1908 xxviii. 176 ff. figs. 1 b—\.