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

The Ram and the Sun in Phrygia 391

series includes bronze votive hands, which sometimes bear the
name of Sabdzzos1 or Zeus Sabdzios2", and sometimes represent
him seated or standing with his feet on a ram's head (fig. 2g6)3;
a few bronze statuettes, which portray him in similar attitudes
on the same support (fig. 2gy)4; and a couple of bronze reliefs,

Fig. 296.

possibly breastplates worn by priests of Sabdzios5, which figure
him standing amid a crowd of attributes with his right foot

1 E.g. Brit. Mus. Cat. Bronzes p. 159 f. no. 874 CABAZI[(jO] on a specimen from
Lord Londesborough's collection.

2 E.g. ib. p. 377 no. 3216 AICABAZI CO on a specimen from Asia Minor.

3 Antichita di Ercolano Napoli 1767 v (Bronzi i) p. xxxvii, Real Museo Borbonico
Napoli 1868 xvi pi. 9, r, Reinach Rep. Stat. ii. 477 no. 2, an example from Resina. The
god wears a Phrygian cap and raises both hands in the attitude of the benedictio Latina.
For other examples see Eisele loc. cit. p. 246 ff. •

4 Eisele loc. cit. p. 248 (especially the bronze from Amiens published in the Rev.
Arch. 1894 ii. 373 f., Reinach Re"p. Stat. ii. 478 no. 3, and its fellow in Babelon—Blanchet
Cat. Bronzes de la Bibl. Nat. p. 289 no. 674 fig. = my fig. 297).

5 Eisele loc. cit. p. 248.