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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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Artemis and the Oak 409

on leading a band of colonists from Athens to Miletos, was bidden
by an oracle to make an image of Artemis ' from very fruitful wood.'
He started during a festival of Artemis Chitone, discovered an oak
with rich and varied fruitage hung upon it, made therefrom an image

of three plumes [?a Sphinx, cp. fig. 307. A. B.C.] surmounted by a tetrastyle temple,
pectoral decoration of two Victories holding a wreath, large garland, panelled sheath,
stags on either side, and fillets treated as dove-sceptres (G. F. Hill Some Palestinian
Cults in the Graeco-A'oman Age London 1912 p. 6 f. fig. 9 (extr. from the Proc. Brit.
Acad, v), Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Palestine pp. xxxi, 54 pi. 6, 5 = my fig. 312).

A figure so full of complex symbolism implies the growth of ages. The temple on top
may be safely regarded as a late and perhaps Egyptising addition : cp. the small nads on
the head of Nehemauit (Lanzone Dizion. di Mitol. Egiz. p. 435 f. pi. 174, 1—3,

Fig- 3'4- Fig. 315.

E. A. Wallis Budge The Gods of the Egyptians London 1904 i. 421 f. pi. 14 calls it 'the
sistrum' !) or of Hathor (Lanzone op. cit. p. 892 pi. 317, 2 f. E. A. Wallis Budge op. cit.
i. 430 pi. 19, bound up as pi. 20, calls it 'a pylon')—a possibility (suggested independently
by Mr H. R. Hall ap. G. F. Hill op. cit. p. 7 n. 1 ( = Proc. Brit. Acad. v. 417 n. 1)) which
should have been considered by W. Amelung loc. cit. The attachment of the fillets to the
ground was also an afterthought. Sometimes they are represented as swinging clear :
e.g. on a bronze coin of Ephesos struck by Domitian (T. Schreiber in the Arch. Zeit.
1883 xli. 284 fig. 4 = my fig. 313). Indeed, this manner of representation can be traced
 
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