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

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his right hand uplifts a double-axe; his left holds the remains of a
thunderbolt and rests upon a rock (fig. 485)1. Of the statuette (K)
all that remains is a raised left arm wearing a tight sleeve and
grasping a winged bolt: the sleeve was once silvered, and the spikes
of the bolt have thin silver-foil twisted round them (fig. 486)2.

But the most complete and interesting monuments relating to
the cult of this god are certain triangular plates of bronze, about

Fig. 486.

a foot from base to apex, which have here and there come to light.
The national museum at Pesth possesses a pair, which either
formed back and front of the same dedication, or less probably were
combined with a third, now missing, to make a pyramid. They
were discovered at Komlod in Hungary, a place which has been

id. p. 213 ff., Kan op. cit. p. 50 no. 41. The inscription runs: I. o. m. | Doliceno \
Atilius I Primus | ? leg. | xin | G(eminae) | ex evojcato leg. | x G(eminae) P(iae)

F(idelis) | ex viso | pro salute | sua et suorum | v. s. 1. 1. m. | do ^j^sis mo (domo

Sergia Marsis, i.e. Marruvio, cp. Corp. inscr. Lat. ix p. 349).

1 J. Dell loc. cit. pp. 182, 184 fig. 22, Kan op. cit. p. 49 no. 39.

2 J. Dell loc. cit. p. 181 f. fig. 19, Kan op. cit. p. 49 f. no. 40.