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

596 The Bull and the Sun in Syria

struck in Kilikia by the satrap Datames, 378—374 B.C. (figs. 454,
455)1, he appears under the name Ba'al-tars enthroned with an eagle-
sceptre in his right hand, a corn-ear and a bunch of grapes in his
left: beside him is an incense-burner, and beneath his throne
a variable symbol—a pomegranate-flower, a bull's head, the fore-

part of a humped bull, the entire bull crouching, a knuckle-bone,
a lion, a bird. The whole design is surrounded by a circle with
projections like battlements, probably meant for the town-wall.
Silver coins issued by Mazaios'2 as satrap of Kilikia, 361—334 B.C.3,
and Trans-Euphratesia, 351—334 B.C. (figs. 456, 457)4, together with

Fig. 456. Fig. 457.

others issued by Arsames as satrap of Kilikia, 334—331 B.C.5, show
the same deity enthroned with a lotos-sceptre and grouped in various
ways with one or more of his attributes—an ear of corn, a bunch of
grapes, and an eagle. On coins struck by Mazaios as general of
Dareios in Syria and at Babylon, 334—331 B.C.'5, and as governor

1 Babelon Monn.gr. rom. ii. 2. 409 ff. pi. 109, 4—10, 12—15, Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins
Lycaonia, etc. p. 167 f. pi. 29, 11—15, Hunter Cat. Coins ii. 547, Head Hist, num?
p. 730 f. fig. 322. Fig. 454 is from a specimen in my collection ; fig. 455 = Babelon
op. cit. ii. 2. 413 f. pi. 109, 14.

2 For the coinage of Mazaios etc. I follow the classification recently proposed by
Babelon op. cit. ii. 2. 443 ff.

3 Id. ib. ii. 2. 445 ff. pi. in, 14—20, pi. 112, 1—8.

4 Id. ib. ii. 2. 451 ff. pi. 112, 12—20, 22, pi. 113, 1 f., 5 — ii. I figure two specimens
in my collection.

5 Id. ib. ii. 2. 461 ff. pi. 113, 13—18, pi. 114, 1 — 3.

6 Id. ib. ii. 2. 471 ff. pi. 114, 15—20.