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)

424 The supports of the Sky personified

to shine by night1.' Brighter still were the two slender shafts, which
on some coins of Kypros (figs. 325, 326)2, Sardeis (fig. 327)3, and

Fig. 327. Fig. 328.

Pergamon (fig. 328)4 representing the temple of Aphrodite Paphta
flank and possibly duplicate the main standards of its facade'"; for
here and elsewhere (fig. 330)6 they are treated as candelabra, on

Real-Enc. vi. 1227 ft".), as quoted by Alex. Polyhist. frag. 18 {Frag. hist. Gr. iii. 228
Miiller) dp. Euseb.praep. ev. 9. 34. 18 makes this pillar sent by Solomon to Souron king
of Tyre etc. : rtJ be Lovpwvi eh Tvpov Tre/j.\pcu top xpwovv klovo. tov ev Ti'/pw ava.Kelp.evou ev
iepif) rod Aids. See F. X. Kortleitner De polytheismo universo Oeniponte 1908 p. 229.

1 Hdt. 2. 44. Cp. supra i. 356 and 583 n. 2.

2 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Cyprus p. 77 pi. 15, 4 Vespasian, p. 82 f. pi. 16, 6—9
Trajan. Figs. 325 and 326 are from specimens in my collection, struck by Vespasian
(KOINONKY TTPinNGTOYCH = 76/77 a.d.) and Trajan (AHMAPX6 EYTTA-
TOC and KOI NON KYTTPIflN).

3 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Cyprus p. cxxxi f. pi. 26, 8 ( = my fig. 327), 9—12, it. Lydia
p. 256 pi. 26, 8 = Anson .AW Gr.v. 29 no. 199 pi. 5 Hadrian TTA<t> I H CAPAIANHN.

4 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Cyprus p. cxxix f. pi. 26, 7 (Paris) = my fig. 328 referable to
the time of Trajan or Hadrian TT£ P TAM H N H N 6TT I CT P I TJCL AAI fi N OC and

TTA*IA.

5 Supra i. 767 n. 1.

6 Fig. 330 represents a small gold ring in my possession. The incised design (scale -f-)
shows the sanctuary of the Paphian Aphrodite with its sacred cone, towered pylon,
flanking candelabra, and paved semicircular court. For similar gold rings see L. P. di
Cesnola Cyprus: its ancient cities, tombs, and temples London 1877 p. 390 no. 10
(wrongly described) pi. 41, 20 (figured upside down), p. 391 no. 18, Brit. Mus. Cat.
Finger Rings p. 25 nos. 134, 135, i36'('on either side of the central chamber is a column
surmounted by a blazing torch '), p. 29 no. 175, p. 44 no. 253 fig. 51 pi. 6 (relief with
enamel filling), p. 240 f. nos. 1640 and 1641 pi. 35 (reliefs of applique work). Cp. the
engraved gems in A. P. di Cesnola Salaminia London 1882 p. 40 f. fig. 39, Furtwangler
Gesch?iitt. Steine Berlin p. 134 no. 2977 pi. 25, id. Antiken Gemmen i pi. 64, 8r, ii. 296,
Brit. Mus. Cat. Finger Rings p. 76 no. 432, Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Cyprus p. cxxviii f.