Cook, Arthur B.: Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 2,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (thunder and lightning): Text and notes (Cambridge, 1925)

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(Apul. met. 6. 4 te iam nuptam Tonantis et reginam deorum.. .quam cunctus oriens
Zygiam veneratur et omnis occidens Lucinam appellat). It is probably Iuno Lucina,
who carries an infant and a torch on a Roman tomb-stone now in the Vatican (H. Brunn
in the Ann. d. Inst. 1848 xx. 430 ff. pi. N, L. Stephani in the Cornpte-rendii St. Pet.
1859 p. 135, Overbeck Gr. Kunstmyth. Hera p. 153 Atlas pi. 10, 24 = my fig. 24,

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W. H. Roscher Iuno und Hera (Studien zur vergleichende Mythologie der Griechen und
Rbmer ii) Leipzig 1875 p. 23 f. and in Roscher Lex. Myth. ii. 582, 602, J. Vogel ib. ii.
611, Amelung Sculpt. Vatic, i. S09 f. no. 731 a pi. 86) : opposite to her stands the deceased
with a table as altar and a pig as victim; in front is the dedication [Corp. inscr. Lat. vi
no. 24819) between two burning torches linked by a fillet. Iuno Lucina certainly appears as
a reverse type on Roman imperial coins, sometimes erect, either holding a patera and a
sceptre (Cohen Monti, enip. rom.- iii. 147 Faustina Iunior nos. 131 f. rev. ivnoni lvcinae
Iuno standing to left with patera and sceptre—gold, no. 133 rev. ivxoni lvcinae s • c •
Iuno, veiled, standing to left with patera and sceptre—large bronze; id. ib.2 iii. 384
Crispina no. 24 rev. ivno lvcixa s-o Iuno standing to left with patera and sceptre,
peacock at feet—middle bronze ; id. ib!2 v. 146 Otacilia no. 23 rev. ivno i.vcina Iuno,
clad in goat-skin (?), standing to right with patera and sceptre—silver), or raising one
hand and supporting an infant with the other (id. ib.'1 iii. 218 Lucilla no. 38 rev. ivnoni
lvcinae Iuno, veiled, standing to left, raising right hand and holding a swaddled infant
—silver, no. 39 rev. ivnoni lvcinae s-c- the same type—large bronze and middle
bronze), or holding one child and flanked by two others (id. ib.2 iii. 147 Faustina Iunior
nos. 134 f- rev. ivnoni lvcinae Iuno standing to left between two children with a third
in her arms—gold, no. 136 rev. ivnoni lvcinae s • c • Iuno standing to left between two
girls with a third on her left arm—large bronze, no. 137 rev. the same legend and type—
middle bronze) ; sometimes seated, either flanked by two children with a third on her
knee (id. ib.2 iii. 147 Faustina Iunior no. 138 rev. Iuno seated to right between two