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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Dios and Dios Njsos

Sosias sees sheep in the ekklesia, etc.—fancies obviously suggested by the attributes (eagle,
snake, ram) of Sabdzios himself.

Other reliefs illustrating the cult of Zeus Sabdzios are listed by T. Eisele in Roscher
Lex. Myth. iv. 243 ft". They include : (1) A relief in white marble, drawn by A. Conze at
Schoinoudi in Imbros, but said to have come from Blaudos (Baldt) in the Mysian district
of Abrettene (A. Conze Reise auf den Inseln des Thrakischett Meeres Hannover i860

Fig. 180.

p. 98 ft", pi. 17, 7 = my fig. 179> T- Eisele loc. cit. iv. 243 fig. 2). I he god, who is beard-
less, sits on a high-backed throne, with a band (?) round his head, a phidle in his right
hand, and a spear or sceptre in his left. Beside him is a tree (palm?), up which his snake
is coiled. Before him an altar, on which a man, followed by a woman, deposits a pinch
of incense. Inscribed : Me^cti'Spos 'A0r]vo5w\pou Ad Saaijtwi | evxrj". 2ad£ios is a mason's
mistake for ^ad^ios — 2a/3ctftos (O. Hofer in Roscher Lex. Myth. iv. 229). Height c. o-25m,