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)

76 Iupiter-Columns

either a thunderbolt (pi. iii)1 or a spear (fig. 37)2: in one case he

Fig. 36-

second —my fig. 36, F. Haug und G. Sixt Die romischen Inschriften und Bildwerke
Wiirttembergs, im Auftrag des wi'irlt. Geschichts- und Altertumsvereins herausgegeben
Stuttgart 1900 no. 343 with the same two figs., F. Hertlein op. cit. pp. 3 f., 29, 30
with n. 1, 35, 37, 43, 46, 65 with the second fig. as title-vignette). Iupiter, wearing
hi mat ion only, which is fastened by a brooch on his right shoulder and leaves the left
shoulder bare, stands erect in a small chariot : his left hand originally held the reins, his
right was somewhat drawn back and raised. The two horses, harnessed under a yoke,
gallop onwards, their forefeet supported on the shoulders and hands of a beardless male
figure with serpentiform legs.

1 Group in red Vosges sandstone (original height c. 070111 to o'8om), found in 1908 in
the inner court of a villa rustica in the Wasserwald six kilometres S.W. of Saverne and
now in the Museum of that town (A. Fuchs in the Anzeigerfiir elsassische Altertumskunde
1909 i. 32 with fig., id. in the Elsassische Monatsschrift fiir Geschichie und Volkskiuide
1911 ii. 472—480, id. Die Kultur der kellischen Vogcsensiedehuigen Zabern i. E. 1914
pp. 120—124 with pi. 23, 1 (base and shaft), pi. 24, 1, 2, pi. 25, 1, 2 (four views of rider),
E. Wendling Die keltisch-rbmischen Steindenkmdler des Zaberner Museums Zabern 1912
nos. 62 and 63, F. Hertlein op. cit. pp. 9, 30 n. 1, 31, 37, 43). With it was the rest of
the monument, viz. a plain base, a smooth turned shaft {supra p. 71 n. 5), and a simple
capital. The rider, whose head resembles that of Iupiter, wears nothing but a cloak: he
grasps in his raised right hand an iron thunderbolt (length o-45m) with tines. The horse,
equipped with a saddle-cloth, was supported by the usual kneeling figure. I am indebted
to Prof. L. Bachmeyer, Director of the Museum at Saverne, for a minutely accurate
description of the whole monument together with tracings of its several parts and a coloured
restoration of the group (followed in my pi. iii).

2 Group in stone (present height o-54m, length o,72m), found at Diedelkopf near Kusel