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Dtos and Dfos Nysos
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with Zeus Poteos (fig. 187) of Dionysopolis on the upper Maiandros
in Phrygia1, with Zeus PotetlsQ) of Limnobria? (Burdur) on the
breadth c. o-i8m. (2) A relief in white marble, found by A. Wagener in the court of a
private house at Koloe (Koula) in Lydia (A. Wagener Inscriptions grecques recneillies cn
Asie Mineure (in Mimoires couronnis et memoires des savants strangers, publics par
V acadimie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique 1858—1861 xxx)
pp. 3—19 pi. A, 1 inscription only, T. Eisele toe, cit. iv. 243 f. fig. 3 = my fig. 180). The
upper register shows a beardless male figure (Zeus Sabdzios) driving towards the left
a two-horsed vehicle. On the reins is seen an eagle; beneath the horses, a snake. The
equipage is accompanied by a male figure (Men, cp. supra i. 193, 642) with a Phrygian
cap (so Wagener : Eisele says, a bowl-shaped helmet) and a winged caduceus, between
which appears a crescent moon. The remainder of the panel is filled by a personage
pouring a libation at a raised altar and by three worshippers with gestures of adoration.
The lower register groups thirteen worshippers about an altar, behind which rises a sacred
tree. On the altar are piled round objects like loaves. Inscribed : Ztovs pire (185 of the
Sullan or Lydo-Phrygian era=ioi a.d.), p.r)(vbs) Aaiaiov a, ewi <tt£(pai>7]:<p6pov TXvkwvos, 17
KoXorjvSiv xaToiKia Ka Oilpwaav Aia Za/3afioc, eiri iepe'wv 'AiroXXioviov rod 'loXXa Kai 'A7ro\-
\icviov rod Aat'7rj7roiJ Aicru)7roii Kai ^lrjrpa 'AaKXrjTrtddov Kai | [ ApreJ/xiSiI'pou KXewvos Kai
KXewvos 'Mel[veKp&Tov> Kai 'A'\iro\\wviou Alwvos koa A.. Height c. ['5om, breadth c. 0*75m.
Wagener with much probability concludes that a solar Zeus Sabdzios is here conducted
to his temple by the lunar Men, who is equipped with the caduceus of Hermes. The
personage pouring a libation is—he supposes—the stephanephoros Glykon, and the sixteen
suppliants are the priests of the god assisting at his installation. Since the Macedonian
Daisios = the Attic Thargelion (W. Dittenberger in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. iv. 2014),
it would seem that Daisios 1 was a sort of May-day festival. (3) A marble relief at
Philadelphia (Ala-Shehir) in Lydia represents Zeus Sabdzios seated on a throne, holding
a large-bodied vase in which a shrub is planted (O. Rayet in the Bull. Corr. Hell. 1877
i. 307—309, T. Eisele toe. cit. iv. 244). Inscribed : Au Kopvcpaiw Ata —a ovdfrov NeaiA-
uttjv I UXovtluv IIXovtlcjvus | Mcuwj' evxv"- Height o"6o'", breadth o'37'". The image
of Zeus Zaovd^ios 'SeavXei.TTjs (i.e. Zeus 2a/3di'ios of "SeavXrj (Nea AtXr/)) is here dedicated
to Zeus Kopv<paios of Philadelphia (on whom see infra Append. P). (4) In the winter
of 1864—1865 workmen digging at Vichy (? = Aquae calidae in Aquitauia : M. Ihm m
Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. ii. 298) near a well full oi Roman remains found a packet of
eighty plaques of thin silver foil, together with a coin of Gordianus and the statuette of a
newborn babe in thin silver backed with resin. The bratteae, which vary from o'05,u to
o-i7m in height and from o'02m to o'07m in breadth, are now in the Musee de Saint-
Germain. They have in almost every case a tree or leaf impressed upon them (figs. 181, 182).
Some add an aedicula, in which stands lupiter with sceptre, bolt, and eagle (figs. 184—186),
flanked on one specimen by a couple of grape-vines (fig. 186). Others symbolise the
god by his bolt and reduce the vines to mere scrolls (fig. 183). The most important
type subjoins a label inscribed: Numin ■ Aug • deo lovi Sajba-sio (sic) ■ G • Iul • Caras|-
sounus • v • s • 1 ■ m (fig. 1S5). See further C. Rossignol—A. Bertrand 'Notice sur les
decouvertes faites a Vichy et en particulier sur des Bracteoles votives d'argent' in the
Bulletin de la Socie'te d'Emulation du dipartement de I'Ailier (Sciences, Aris et Belles-
lettres) Moulins 1889 xviii. 185—232 pis. 1—8, of which pi. 1, 1 and 2 = my figs. 181, 182,
pi. 3, 1 and 3 = my figs. 184, j86, pi. 4, i = my fig. 183, pi. 5 = my fig. 185, T. Eisele
loc. cit. iv. 245, Corp. inscr. Lat. xiii no. 1496. Similar bratteae in S. Lysons Reliquice
Brilannico-Romance London 181 7 ii pis. 38—41, Corp. inscr. Lat. vii nos. 80 f., 84—86,
supra i. 626 ff. Cp. the 'silver shrines of Diana' made at Ephesos (Acts 19. 24).
1 A ^/tfiv'-autonomous copper of Dionysopolis, struck in the time of Alexander
Severus(?), has obv. ZEVCTTOTHOC AI 0 N VCOTTO A£ I Tfl N" Head of Zeus
ii0t770s, wearing fillet, to right, within border of dots; rev. CTPATHTOVN-
TOC[C]fl[C] TPATOVB The river-god Maiandros recumbent to left, with reed and
285
with Zeus Poteos (fig. 187) of Dionysopolis on the upper Maiandros
in Phrygia1, with Zeus PotetlsQ) of Limnobria? (Burdur) on the
breadth c. o-i8m. (2) A relief in white marble, found by A. Wagener in the court of a
private house at Koloe (Koula) in Lydia (A. Wagener Inscriptions grecques recneillies cn
Asie Mineure (in Mimoires couronnis et memoires des savants strangers, publics par
V acadimie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique 1858—1861 xxx)
pp. 3—19 pi. A, 1 inscription only, T. Eisele toe, cit. iv. 243 f. fig. 3 = my fig. 180). The
upper register shows a beardless male figure (Zeus Sabdzios) driving towards the left
a two-horsed vehicle. On the reins is seen an eagle; beneath the horses, a snake. The
equipage is accompanied by a male figure (Men, cp. supra i. 193, 642) with a Phrygian
cap (so Wagener : Eisele says, a bowl-shaped helmet) and a winged caduceus, between
which appears a crescent moon. The remainder of the panel is filled by a personage
pouring a libation at a raised altar and by three worshippers with gestures of adoration.
The lower register groups thirteen worshippers about an altar, behind which rises a sacred
tree. On the altar are piled round objects like loaves. Inscribed : Ztovs pire (185 of the
Sullan or Lydo-Phrygian era=ioi a.d.), p.r)(vbs) Aaiaiov a, ewi <tt£(pai>7]:<p6pov TXvkwvos, 17
KoXorjvSiv xaToiKia Ka Oilpwaav Aia Za/3afioc, eiri iepe'wv 'AiroXXioviov rod 'loXXa Kai 'A7ro\-
\icviov rod Aat'7rj7roiJ Aicru)7roii Kai ^lrjrpa 'AaKXrjTrtddov Kai | [ ApreJ/xiSiI'pou KXewvos Kai
KXewvos 'Mel[veKp&Tov> Kai 'A'\iro\\wviou Alwvos koa A.. Height c. ['5om, breadth c. 0*75m.
Wagener with much probability concludes that a solar Zeus Sabdzios is here conducted
to his temple by the lunar Men, who is equipped with the caduceus of Hermes. The
personage pouring a libation is—he supposes—the stephanephoros Glykon, and the sixteen
suppliants are the priests of the god assisting at his installation. Since the Macedonian
Daisios = the Attic Thargelion (W. Dittenberger in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. iv. 2014),
it would seem that Daisios 1 was a sort of May-day festival. (3) A marble relief at
Philadelphia (Ala-Shehir) in Lydia represents Zeus Sabdzios seated on a throne, holding
a large-bodied vase in which a shrub is planted (O. Rayet in the Bull. Corr. Hell. 1877
i. 307—309, T. Eisele toe. cit. iv. 244). Inscribed : Au Kopvcpaiw Ata —a ovdfrov NeaiA-
uttjv I UXovtluv IIXovtlcjvus | Mcuwj' evxv"- Height o"6o'", breadth o'37'". The image
of Zeus Zaovd^ios 'SeavXei.TTjs (i.e. Zeus 2a/3di'ios of "SeavXrj (Nea AtXr/)) is here dedicated
to Zeus Kopv<paios of Philadelphia (on whom see infra Append. P). (4) In the winter
of 1864—1865 workmen digging at Vichy (? = Aquae calidae in Aquitauia : M. Ihm m
Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. ii. 298) near a well full oi Roman remains found a packet of
eighty plaques of thin silver foil, together with a coin of Gordianus and the statuette of a
newborn babe in thin silver backed with resin. The bratteae, which vary from o'05,u to
o-i7m in height and from o'02m to o'07m in breadth, are now in the Musee de Saint-
Germain. They have in almost every case a tree or leaf impressed upon them (figs. 181, 182).
Some add an aedicula, in which stands lupiter with sceptre, bolt, and eagle (figs. 184—186),
flanked on one specimen by a couple of grape-vines (fig. 186). Others symbolise the
god by his bolt and reduce the vines to mere scrolls (fig. 183). The most important
type subjoins a label inscribed: Numin ■ Aug • deo lovi Sajba-sio (sic) ■ G • Iul • Caras|-
sounus • v • s • 1 ■ m (fig. 1S5). See further C. Rossignol—A. Bertrand 'Notice sur les
decouvertes faites a Vichy et en particulier sur des Bracteoles votives d'argent' in the
Bulletin de la Socie'te d'Emulation du dipartement de I'Ailier (Sciences, Aris et Belles-
lettres) Moulins 1889 xviii. 185—232 pis. 1—8, of which pi. 1, 1 and 2 = my figs. 181, 182,
pi. 3, 1 and 3 = my figs. 184, j86, pi. 4, i = my fig. 183, pi. 5 = my fig. 185, T. Eisele
loc. cit. iv. 245, Corp. inscr. Lat. xiii no. 1496. Similar bratteae in S. Lysons Reliquice
Brilannico-Romance London 181 7 ii pis. 38—41, Corp. inscr. Lat. vii nos. 80 f., 84—86,
supra i. 626 ff. Cp. the 'silver shrines of Diana' made at Ephesos (Acts 19. 24).
1 A ^/tfiv'-autonomous copper of Dionysopolis, struck in the time of Alexander
Severus(?), has obv. ZEVCTTOTHOC AI 0 N VCOTTO A£ I Tfl N" Head of Zeus
ii0t770s, wearing fillet, to right, within border of dots; rev. CTPATHTOVN-
TOC[C]fl[C] TPATOVB The river-god Maiandros recumbent to left, with reed and