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)

362 The goddess under the Arch

(/u.) The goddess under the Arch.

Again, the representation of the sky as an arch will explain why
various ancient goddesses of the earth appear either immediately
beneath, or in close connexion with, an arcuated structure. The
Hittite Chipa under her winged arch1 is a case in point. Similarly,

Fig. 259. Fig. 260.

on a bronze medallion of Faustina Iunior (fig. 25 5)2 Isis is enthroned
beneath a decorative arch resting on two columns with s'hort flank-
ing walls. On a copper of Gallienus struck at Synnada in Phrygia

1 Supra i. 644 fig. 504.

2 Sir J. Evans in the Num. Chron. Third Series 1896 xvi. 48 ft'. pi. 5, 2, Gnecchi
Medagl. Rom. ii. 41 no. 24 pi. 68, 9 = my fig. 255.