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

612 The Bull and the Sun in Syria

horns of the bull. A third is indicated in relief on a short column,
which serves as a support to the bull's body. The right fore-foot
of the beast is raised and rests upon a ram's head1. The base, as
before, bears an inscription To Iupiter Dolichenus, Best and Greatest
(fig. 481)2.

Fig. 480. Fig. 481.

How such statuettes were erected and what was the general
aspect of a Dolichenus'-shrine, may be inferred from the finds made
in 1891 by J. Dell at Petronell, the ancient Carnuntum in Upper
Pannonia3. The shrine was a small but strongly-walled chamber
approximately square in plan and entered through a doorway on
the east (fig. 482)4. In the middle rose a rectangular pillar, built,
like the walls, of rag-stone with inserted tiles. This pillar had

1 Supra pp. 391 f., 425 ff.

2 Corp. inscr. Lat. iii no. 3253 = Kan op. cit. p. 42 no. 26: I. o. m. Dol. | Aurelii
Sabinianus et Majximus et Apollinarius sacc. | vot. 1. 1. pos. Aurelius Apollinarius is
presumably the M. Aur. Apollinaris, a decurio of Mursella, who dedicated two altars,
likewise found at Szalan-kemen, to I. o. m. D. et deo paterno | Com(a)geno {Corp. inscr.
Lat. iii Suppl. no. 10243 = Kan op. cit. p. 42 f. no. 27). On the statuette here reproduced
see further Custos Seidl loc. cit. xii. 34^ pi. 1, Overbeck Gr. Kumtmyth. Zeus p. 271 f.

3 J. Dell in the Arch.-ep. Mitth. 1893 xvi. 176—187 with figs. 14—24 and pi. 1.

4 Id. id. p. 177 fig. 14 = Kan op. cit. p. 47 f. fig.