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

Iupiter Heliopolitanus and the Bull 573

The sheath is figured in front with three busts, Kronos1 above,
Helios and Selene beneath ; at the back with an eagle holding
a wreath in its beak. Below the busts and the eagle are rosettes

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Fig. 442 a. Fig. 442 b.

of six or seven petals apiece. And on either side of the sheath is a
thunderbolt.

syrienne Paris 1903 p. 39 ff. fig. 15 raises needless doubts (P. Perdrizet in the Rev. Arch.
1903 ii. 401).

1 So R. Dussaud in the Rev. Arch. 1903 i. 358 == id. Notes de mythologie syrienne
Paris 1903 p. 41. W. Gurlitt loc. cit. p. 124 had suggested Caelus.