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The Trophy 109
And pillars lopped to be Jove's effigies.
Not theirs to fire the fray with bellowing horn :
True home-bred chiefs and prowess old they chant,
Till praise o' the past begets new valiancy1.
The name Phakes means a 'beam2,' being
word as our 'balk' of timber3. If we may-
assume that this name was traditional4, it
points perhaps to the existence of a pillar-
cult among the Coralli5. However that maybe,
the 'pillars lopped to be Jove's effigies' were
doubtless tree-trunks shorn of their boughs and
viewed as vehicles of the sky-god. As such
they had their parallel in the trophy-stand
common throughout the classical area (figs. 71",
J2\ etc.8), a trimmed oak-trunk which likewise
could be called the image of Zeus". Moreover,
just as the IrminsM developed into the richly-
carved column of Mogontiacum, so the rude
trophy-log gave rise to such monuments as
1 Val. Flacc. 6. 88 ft. hos super aeratam Phalces agit aequore nubem (P. Burmannus
sen. c). pub em) | cum fremiti!, densique levant vexilla Coralli, | barbaricae quis signarotae
ferrataque (F. Hertlein cj. serrataque) dorso | forma suum truncaeque Iovis simulacra
columnae ; | proelia nec rauco curant incendere cornu, | indigenas sed rite duces et prisca
suorum | facta canunt veterumque viris hortamina laudes.
For wheels as solar emblems in the bronze and iron ages see J. Dechelette Manuel
d'archc'ologie pre'historique Paris 1910 ii. 1. 296 f., 413—418, id. id. Paris 1913 ii. 2. 885—
892 in addition to the literature cited supra i. 197 n. 7.
On boars as badges see Tac. Germ. 45, cp. hist. 4. 22, Plin. uat. hist. 10. 16, Fest.
p. 234^ 31 ff. Mtiller, p. 266, 16 ff. Lindsay, Paul, ex Fest. p. 235, 7 f. Midler, p. 267, 6 ff.
Lindsay, and the information collected by J. P. Cassel Observationes antiquariae cie porco
in vexillis et in foederibus apud veteres Romanos Magdeburgi 1748, J. Grimm Teutonic
Mythology trans. J. S. Stallybrass London 1882 i. 213—215, id. ib. London 1888 iv. 1328,
J355> G. A. Mtiller Die Reitergruppe auf den romisch-germanischen Giganten-Sciulen
Strassburg i/E und Biihl (Baden) 1894 p. 15 pi. 2, 6 (a group of boar and snakedegged
giant in the Museum at Wiesbaden), R. Forrer Reallex. p. 194 rig. 165, id. Keltische
Numismatik der Rhein- und Donaidande Strassburg 1908 p. 29 figs. 46, 48, p. 46 fig. 88,
p. 114 fig. 203, p. 290 f. fig. 491, p. 346 figs. 539—541 (bronze statuettes from PIradischt
near Stradonic and Gallo-Germanic coins in gold, silver, potin), A. von Domaszewski Die
Fah)ien im romischen Heere {Abhandlungen des archiiologisch-epigraphisehen Seminares der
Universitiit Wien v) Wien 1885 pp. 12, 55, id. Die Religion des romischen Heeres Trier
1895 p. 119, id. Abhandlungen zur romischen Religion Leipzig und Berlin 1909 p. 12
( = Arch.-ep. Mitth. 1892 xv. 192), and especially S. Reinach Bronzes Figure's -pp. 254—
258, id. Cultes, Mythes et Religions Paris 1905 i. 22 ( = Revue scientijiquc 1900 ii. 454), 45
fig. 11, 52, 67ft". ( = Revue celtique 1900 xxi. 285, 297 ff.), 244, 262 if. ( = Revue celtique
igoixxii. 157 ft".), id. ib. Paris 1908 iii. 177 ( = Revue de PHistoire des Religiojis 1907 lvi. 74).
" Poll. 1. 85 to 5e rfj areipa ■rrpoo'rjXov/J.evov <fid\k7]s, t<f oil 77 devrepa rpoiris.
3 Prelhvitz Etym. Worterb. d. Gr. Spr? p. 481 cp. p. 480 s.v. <pd\ay^ and p. 491 s.v.
4>\ia, F. Kluge Etymologisches Wbrterbuch der deutschen Sprache5 Strassburg 1899 p. 28 s.v.
in fact the same
And pillars lopped to be Jove's effigies.
Not theirs to fire the fray with bellowing horn :
True home-bred chiefs and prowess old they chant,
Till praise o' the past begets new valiancy1.
The name Phakes means a 'beam2,' being
word as our 'balk' of timber3. If we may-
assume that this name was traditional4, it
points perhaps to the existence of a pillar-
cult among the Coralli5. However that maybe,
the 'pillars lopped to be Jove's effigies' were
doubtless tree-trunks shorn of their boughs and
viewed as vehicles of the sky-god. As such
they had their parallel in the trophy-stand
common throughout the classical area (figs. 71",
J2\ etc.8), a trimmed oak-trunk which likewise
could be called the image of Zeus". Moreover,
just as the IrminsM developed into the richly-
carved column of Mogontiacum, so the rude
trophy-log gave rise to such monuments as
1 Val. Flacc. 6. 88 ft. hos super aeratam Phalces agit aequore nubem (P. Burmannus
sen. c). pub em) | cum fremiti!, densique levant vexilla Coralli, | barbaricae quis signarotae
ferrataque (F. Hertlein cj. serrataque) dorso | forma suum truncaeque Iovis simulacra
columnae ; | proelia nec rauco curant incendere cornu, | indigenas sed rite duces et prisca
suorum | facta canunt veterumque viris hortamina laudes.
For wheels as solar emblems in the bronze and iron ages see J. Dechelette Manuel
d'archc'ologie pre'historique Paris 1910 ii. 1. 296 f., 413—418, id. id. Paris 1913 ii. 2. 885—
892 in addition to the literature cited supra i. 197 n. 7.
On boars as badges see Tac. Germ. 45, cp. hist. 4. 22, Plin. uat. hist. 10. 16, Fest.
p. 234^ 31 ff. Mtiller, p. 266, 16 ff. Lindsay, Paul, ex Fest. p. 235, 7 f. Midler, p. 267, 6 ff.
Lindsay, and the information collected by J. P. Cassel Observationes antiquariae cie porco
in vexillis et in foederibus apud veteres Romanos Magdeburgi 1748, J. Grimm Teutonic
Mythology trans. J. S. Stallybrass London 1882 i. 213—215, id. ib. London 1888 iv. 1328,
J355> G. A. Mtiller Die Reitergruppe auf den romisch-germanischen Giganten-Sciulen
Strassburg i/E und Biihl (Baden) 1894 p. 15 pi. 2, 6 (a group of boar and snakedegged
giant in the Museum at Wiesbaden), R. Forrer Reallex. p. 194 rig. 165, id. Keltische
Numismatik der Rhein- und Donaidande Strassburg 1908 p. 29 figs. 46, 48, p. 46 fig. 88,
p. 114 fig. 203, p. 290 f. fig. 491, p. 346 figs. 539—541 (bronze statuettes from PIradischt
near Stradonic and Gallo-Germanic coins in gold, silver, potin), A. von Domaszewski Die
Fah)ien im romischen Heere {Abhandlungen des archiiologisch-epigraphisehen Seminares der
Universitiit Wien v) Wien 1885 pp. 12, 55, id. Die Religion des romischen Heeres Trier
1895 p. 119, id. Abhandlungen zur romischen Religion Leipzig und Berlin 1909 p. 12
( = Arch.-ep. Mitth. 1892 xv. 192), and especially S. Reinach Bronzes Figure's -pp. 254—
258, id. Cultes, Mythes et Religions Paris 1905 i. 22 ( = Revue scientijiquc 1900 ii. 454), 45
fig. 11, 52, 67ft". ( = Revue celtique 1900 xxi. 285, 297 ff.), 244, 262 if. ( = Revue celtique
igoixxii. 157 ft".), id. ib. Paris 1908 iii. 177 ( = Revue de PHistoire des Religiojis 1907 lvi. 74).
" Poll. 1. 85 to 5e rfj areipa ■rrpoo'rjXov/J.evov <fid\k7]s, t<f oil 77 devrepa rpoiris.
3 Prelhvitz Etym. Worterb. d. Gr. Spr? p. 481 cp. p. 480 s.v. <pd\ay^ and p. 491 s.v.
4>\ia, F. Kluge Etymologisches Wbrterbuch der deutschen Sprache5 Strassburg 1899 p. 28 s.v.
in fact the same