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lupiter Heliopolitanus and the Bull 569

A disk is suspended round his neck. The upper part of his body
appears to be covered with scales. The lower part is encased in a
sheath, which is carved with panels containing flowers of three or
four petals apiece1.

Another limestone stele, found
in 1752 in the basin of the
famous fountain at Nimes and now
preserved in the Maison-Carree,
bears in front a joint-dedication
to lupiter Heliopolitanus and
Nemausus2. The latter god is
symbolised on the right side of
the stone by an oval shield and a
carnix or Gallic trumpet. The
former is represented on the left
by his cult-image (fig. 436)3. On
his head, which is beardless and

faces the spectator, rests the '^"^M i

kdlathos, decorated with leaves U^^m^^m^ms^^

and a string of jewels (?)4. His . ._____'."Jill Llllll J\

right hand clasps a whip, his left
a bunch of corn. A collar of

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some sort hangs about his neck,
and there are traces of two busts

below it. The compartments of V1--■---:-----J

the sheath are filled with flowers Fig- 436-

of four and six petals each: one of these flowers is seen in profile

1 Another limestone stele from the same district repeats this design (S. Ronzevalle
loc. cit. p. 454, R. Dussaud in the Rev. Arch. 1903 i. 348, 356, 359 = id. Notes de mytho-
logie syrienne Paris 1903 pp. 30, 39, 42). It is badly preserved, but retains in the left
hand a fragment of the bunch of corn, and perhaps of the thunderbolt too, mentioned by
Macrobius (so Dussaud locc. citt.: Ronzevalle saw in it a fir-cone partially sunk in an
oval support).

2 Corp. inscr. Lat. xii no. 3072 = Dessau Inscr. Lat. sel. no. 4288 I. o. m. Helio-
politan. I et Nemauso | C. Iulius Tib. fil. Fab. | Tiberinus p. p., domo | Beryto, votum
solvit {supra p. 552 n. 2) in letters belonging to the end of the second century. Cp. the
inscription on the stele from Beirut [supra p. 567 n. 8). The dedicators of the two monu-
ments were obviously related to one another.

3 Height of stile o-9om. F. Lenormant in the Gaz. Arch. 1876 ii. 78 ff. pi. 21
published the left-hand relief, but made serious mistakes about it, supposing that the god
was bearded, that his head was in profile to the right, that he was accompanied by one
lion instead of two bulls, etc. These blunders were suspected by Ronzevalle loc. cit.
p. 444 f. and F. Studniczka in the Arch.-ep. Mitth. 1884 viii. 61. But for the first really
accurate description of the stele we are indebted to R. Dussaud in the Rev. Arch. 1903 i.
347» 353—355 fig- 13 —id- Notes de mythologie syrienne Paris 1903 pp. 30, 36—38 fig. 13.

4 Pliny in his list of precious stones includes ' Adad's kidney,' ' Adad's eye,' and