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)

Ianus bifrontal on coins

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with the types of Ianus and Mercurius, issued at Rome between
c. 290 and c. 240 B.C., represent the former god as beardless

Fig. 271. Fig. 272.

(figs. 269, 270)1—a point in which they agree with the contemporary

1907 i. 3. 624), it was at least Men trouvee. Similarly Lambaesis in Numidia worshipped
both Ianus Pater (Corp. inscr. Lat. viii no. 2608 = Dessau Inscr. Lat. sel. no. 3324 Iani
Patro («V)jetc.) and Fons (Corp. inscr. Lat. viii no. 2656, 2 aedem Fontis etc.). Iupiter,
like Ianus, came to be associated with fountain-powers : Corp. inscr. Lat. vi no. 404 (cp.
no. 30756) = Dessau Lnscr. Lat. sel. no. 3062 (Rome) Iovi Optimo Maximo | Caelestino,
Fontibus, et | Minervae etc., Corp. inscr. Lat. viii no. 429i=Dessau Lnscr. Lat. sel.
no. 3063 (Lambaesis) Iovi (v.I. Iovo) | Propagatori | Conservatori | et Genio Fontis, etc.

1 E. J. Haeberlin Aes grave Frankfurt a. M. 1910 p. 76 Tafelband pi. 36, r (=my
fig. 269) in the Museo Kircheriano weighing 270-i5 grammes and pi. 36, 3 ( = my fig. 270)
at Copenhagen weighing 262-70 grammes. The former specimen is figured also by
Garrucci Mon. Lt. ant. p. 19 pi. 36, 1. See further Garrucci id. p. 20 pi. 37, 1, G. F. Hill
Historical Roman Coins London 1909 p. 18 pi. 5, 8, p. 24 b

C. II.

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