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

614 The Bull and the Sun in Syria

once held up a vaulted roof, above which there had been a second
room with a tiled mosaic flooring. The walls of the lower chamber
were plastered and showed traces of paint. Its floor was laid with
big square tiles. Three overturned altars (B, C, D in fig. 482) bore

inscriptions To Ittpiter Dolichenus,
Best and Greatest^: the most perfect
of them (C) is here represented (fig.
48$)2. Beside these altars the shrine
contained a limestone relief, a marble
statue, and a bronze statuette, all re-
presenting the god. The relief (E, E^)
is a tapering slab with rounded top,
set on a moulded base (F): its back-
ground is painted blue and inscribed
in red letters with a dedication to

^rrrr<ni,,t,<n,,,,,,,,,r„r,~

'/ (rtr/-//rrfr/•r/rr/rs/r'rt'

Fig. 484. Fig. 485.

Iupiter, who stands as usual on his bull (fig. 484)3. The statue (H),
broken but still well-preserved, shows him erect on the ground:

1 Corp. inscr. Lat. iii Suppl. nos. 11131, 11132, 11133, J- Dell loc. cit. p. 178 ff.
figs. 16, 17, 18, E. Borraann id. pp. 210 ff., 2i5f., Kan op. cit. p. 50 f. nos. 42. 43, 44.

2 Corp. insc. Lat. iii Suppl. no. 11132. J. Dell loc. cit. p. 180 f. fig. 17, E. Bormann ib.
p. 215 f., Kan op. cit. p. 51 no. 43: I. o. m. D. j C. Secunjdius sacer(dos) | v. s. 1. 1. m.

3 Corp. inscr. Lat. iii Suppl. no. 11129, J. Dell loc. cit. p. 182 f. fig. 20, E. Bormann