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)

Iupiter-Columns

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ascending order (fig. 53)1. The column as a
whole was dedicated 'to Iupiter Best and
Greatest,' but not—so far as we know—to
Iuno in combination with him'2.

The earlier, like the later, variety of ' Jupi-
ter-column ' had a long history behind it,
being in all probability itself descended from
the Germanic IrminsM. The one example of
which any trace subsists in our own country
stood at Durocornovium {Cirencester). Here
a small sandstone plinth has come to light

with a scale-pattern and three superposed figures of Mer-
curius, Minerva, Iuno. The statue, to judge from its di-
mensions, stood upon the capital of the column, not—as
Keller supposed—on the altar. Hertlein notes that the
column of Klein-Bouslar near Erkelenz (Westdentsche Zeit-
schrift 1907 xxvi. 321) exhibits the same three deities in the
same order. See further F. Hettner in the Westdeutsche
Zeitschrift 1885 iv. 386.

1 S. Reinach in the Rev. arch. 1913 i. 27 fig. 2 'Colonne
de Mulfort.'

2 F. Hertlein op. cit. p. 158, cp. id. p. 81.

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