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

Zeus Dolichatos and Iupiter Doli'chenus 621

indeed possible that they were sometimes regarded as his weapon:
the half-worked barbs of the first Heddernheim plate, the raised
rib on the back of it and of its fellow, the spear-like aspect of
a third plate from the same locality1, all support that view.
Nevertheless, since Iupiter Dolichenus never brandishes a weapon
of this form but always2 a double-axe and a thunderbolt of normal
shape, it is safer to conclude that the bronze triangular plates were
originally substitutes for bronze pyramids or stone pyramids

Fig. 491.

sheathed with bronze. And we have already surmised that the
pyramid as a ritual object points to the cult of a mountain-deity3.
The god of thunder and lightning naturally dwells on a mountain-
top.

The lily-plants of the Komlod dedication4 and the lily-flowers

1 Infra p. 627 f. fig. 493.

2 Occasionally the god is so far Romanised that he stands, like an ordinary Iupiter,
in.his temple with a thunderbolt in one hand, a sceptre or lance in the other {infra
p. 627 f.).

3 Supra p. 603. 4 Supra p. 616.