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The Fleece of Zeus

He sits on a stone seat spread with a skin, which in the most
authoritative examples of the type appears as a lion-skin1. At his
feet is a ram's head, representing—as F. Hauser has pointed out—
the 'fleece of Zeus2,' and recalling—as we may add—the Sabazian
foot-stool3. The hero holds a torch in his left hand. Above his
bowed and veiled head a priestess raises the Uknon. A priest bears

poppy-capsules in a phidle and pours a libation over a pig held by
an attendant. Later variants in marble modify the figures to right
and left (figs. 3084, 309). They also combine the two panels in a

plastica Roma 1842 p. 70 ff. pi. 17, reversing his design in accordance with the photograph
published by Von Rohden—Winnefeld op. cit. iv. 1. 8 fig. 9. Overbeck Gr. Kunstmyth.
Demeter-Kora pp. 510, 564, 579 Atlas pi. 16, 10 and F. Lenormant in Daremberg—Saglio
Diet. Ant. i. 1070 fig. 1311 perpetuate Campana's error. The lower part of Kore belongs
to another relief of the same type; and the middle part of her is a faulty modern
restoration. The best specimen, that in the Museo delle Terme at Rome no. 4358 (Von
Rohden—Winnefeld op. cit. pi. 45), is unfortunately defective as regards Demeter's seat.

1 G. E. Rizzo in the Rom. Mitth. 1910 xxv. 1-21 ff. claims this skin as the Aids K&diov.
But see F. Hauser id. p. 287 f.

2 Id. id. p. 288, cp. Harrison Proleg. Gk. Rel.2 p. 547.

3 Supra p. 391 f.

4 Here again the best specimen in terra-cotta, that of the Museo delle Terme no. 4357
(Von Rohden—Winnefeld op. cit. pi. 46), fails us at the critical point—the ram's head.
Indeed, all terra-cotta examples are fragmentary. I have therefore figured a marble relief
at Naples (Guida del Mus. Napoli p. 167 no. 568), of post-Augustan date, perhaps part
of a sarcophagus-front, which was published in reverse by G. Winckelmann Monumenti
antichi inediti Roma 1821 ii pi. 104 and with extensive modern restorations in the Real
Museo Borbonico Napoli 1829 v pi. 23, Bull. Comm. Arch. Comun. di Roma 1879
pi. 4—-5, 2 (see Von Rohden—Winnefeld op. cit. iv. 1. 8 n. 1 bis, G. E. Rizzo in the

, Fig. 308.