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

Zeus Dolichaios and Iupiter Dolichenus 617

to it, in a separate panel as before, are busts of the Sun with a
whip (?) and the Moon with a torch. The compartment below
shows in the centre an altar burning, above which a large but
indistinct object (possibly a bunch of grapes with two fluttering
lemnisci) appears in the air. To the left of the altar stands Iupiter
Dolichenus on his bull: his right hand is raised and holds an un-
certain attribute (? double-axe badly rendered); his left grasps
a thunderbolt. To the right of the altar stands a goddess, pre-
sumably Iuno, on an ibex. The lowest and largest division
represents Iupiter uplifting his right hand and holding a thunder-
bolt in his left over a lighted altar. He stands in a small distyle
temple, to either side of which is a legionary standard surmounted
by its eagle. These standards in turn are flanked by two deities,
probably intended for forms of Iupiter Heliopolitanus1. Each of
them has corn-ears or perhaps a spiky thunderbolt in his left hand:
one uplifts his right hand ; the other holds in it a flower-shaped
(? solar) disk. Both are standing behind the foreparts of two bulls
conjoined by means of similar flower-shaped disks. The two
bronze plates are bounded along their common sides by a leaf-
pattern. It has been stated that their apex was formerly adorned
with a small winged Victory standing on a globe and holding
a palm-branch in her left hand. But the statement appears to be a
mere conjecture: in any case the little figure has vanished.

In the Archaeological Institute at Vienna is a pair of similar,
but fragmentary, plates, found at Traizmauer, the ancient Trigi-
samum in Noricum. The front (fig. 489)2, which still shows traces
of silvering, presents in high relief a bearded Iupiter Dolichenus with
axe and bolt. Above him is an eagle with folded wings. At his
right side, on a smaller scale, is a god, like himself bearded and wear-
ing a Phrygian cap, who holds a spear in his right hand, a quartered
globe or disk in his left. This god stood originally behind the
foreparts of two bulls, the horn of one being visible under his arm3.
Other fragments belonging to the same plate show parts of the
bulls behind which a corresponding god stood on the left of
Iupiter, and in a lower register beneath this figure a goddess more

1 Supra p. 567 ff.

2 Kan op. cit. p. 55 ff. no. 58, a, A. von Domaszewski loc. cit. p. 60 pi. 4, 2a, 20,
G. Loeschcke 'Bemerkungen zu den Weihgeschenken an Juppiter Dolichenus' in the
Bonner Jahrbiicher 1901 cvii. 69, R. Munsterberg ' Bronzereliefs vom Limes' in the
Jahresh. d. oest. arch. Inst. 1908 xi. 229 ff. figs. 99, 100, 101.

3 R. Munsterberg loc. cit. p. 230 f. fig. 102 well compares a small bronze statuette of
unknown origin now at Vienna, which shows a bearded god wearing a kdlathos and
uplifting a double-axe and a three-petalled flower between two bulls emergent from
either side of him.