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

Zeus Dolichatos and Iupiter Dolichenus 627

K. Zangemeister and E. Gerhard. Of these, three are in the Gold
Room at the British Museum. One (fig. 492)1 represents the god
as standing in a distyle building, the gable of which contains a
wreath. He holds a thunderbolt in his right hand, a sceptre or
lance in his left. On the ground at his feet is an eagle. Beneath
the building is the votive inscription2; above it, a big lily, each
petal of which terminates in a similar but smaller lily, the central
one supporting at its apex a floral crescent. All three petals are
marked with a medial pattern closely resembling that on certain

Fig. 492.

plates already described3. The same design comes out yet more
clearly on the second specimen (fig. 493)4, which above and below
its inscription5 has a spear-head enclosed in a frame of lily-work.

1 K. Zangemeister in the Bonner Jahrbucher 1901 cvii. 61 f. pi. 6, 1.

2 I. o. m. Dolicheno u bi ferrum nascitlur Flavius Fidelis | et Q. Iulius Posstimjus
ex imperio ipsijus pro se et suos.

3 Supra p. 620 f.

4 K. Zangemeister loc. cit. 1901 cvii. 63 pi. 6, 1 and 3.

5 I. o. m. Dojlicheno | Domitius I Germanus | v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus)
m(erito).

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