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The spear of Zeus
Zeus Areios is hardly to be separated from Zeus Strategos who,
together with Hera, is mentioned in an inscription of 69 A.D. as the
patron deity of Amastris in Paphlagonia1. (^//^z'-autonomous coppers
of the town, issued in early imperial times, exhibit his bust with a
remarkable tress of wavy hair above the forehead (fig. 638)-'. On
coppers struck by Antoninus Pius he stands in a statuesque pose, his
Fig. 638. Fig. 639. Fig. 640. Fig. 641.
left hand swathed in an ample kimdtion, his right holding a spear,
and an eagle at his feet (fig. 63c))3. Other pieces struck by the same
emperor show him grouped with his consort, the sceptre-bearing
Hera (fig. 640)4,—a type repeated in inferior style by Tranquillina
(fig. 641 )~D. It is probable that Zeus Otlrios, whose sanctuary stood on
the eastern side of the Thracian Bosporos6, was a god of like aspect.
phorus; et multo plura eiusmodi apud haruspices et Romanos veteres inveneris. The
passage is thus printed by G. F. Hildebrancl (ed. min. 1843).
But for Propagator (E. Aust in Roscher Lex. Myth. ii. 746,
751, supra i. 552 n. 1 (?)) I should read Propugnator (E. Aust
loc. cit. ii. 751), thereby obtaining an unbroken series of
military titles. On imperial coins with the legends iovi
propvgnatori (or propvgnat) and iovis propvgnator
see Rasche Lex. Num. iv. 921, Suppl. iii. 156 b, 162.
I figure a 'first brass,' struck by Alexander Severus, from my
collection.
1 G. Hirschfeld in the Sitzungsber. d. Akad. d. Wiss.
Berliii 1888 p. 876 b no. 27, R. Cagnat—G. Lafaye Inscrip-
tiones Graecae ad res Romanas pertinentes Paris 1906 iii. 32 no. 89 6 orj/aos \ fiaprvpei
llap/j-evia^K^ip j /cat QapvaKr},...../cat | etf^erat Ad 'ErpaTrjyi^ | /cat "Hpa, rot? irarpioi^ 6e]ois
/cat wpoeiXTuj(a)Lv tt}s | woKeuis,..... | irovs (3\p' (se. 132 of the Pompeian era = 69 a.d.).
2 Waddington—Babelon—Reinach Monri. gr. d''As. Min. i. 138 b no. 37 pi. 18, 23,
no. 32 pi. 18, 24, no. 33 pi. 18, 25 (=my fig. 638), no. 34 pi. r8, 26, no. 35 pi. 18,
27, Brit. Miis. Cat. Coins Pontus, etc. p. 85 pi. 20, 1 f., Overbeck Gr. Kunstmyth. Zeus
p. 223 MiAnztaf. 3, 21, Head Hist, man.- p. 506.
3 Waddington—Babelon—Reinach op. cit. i. 142 no. 61 pi. 19, 15 ( = my fig. 639),
W. Abeken in the Ann. d. Inst. 1839 xi. 64 pi. A, 2, Overbeck Gr. Kunstmyth. Zeus
pp. 134, 164, 223 Miinztaf. 2, 27, Miiller—Wieseler—Wernicke Ant. Den/on. i. 98 b
pi. 9, 29,
4 Waddington—Babelon—Reinach op. cit. i. 142 no. 62 pi. 19, 16 ( = my fig. 640)
double-struck.
3 Waddington—Babelon—Reinach op. cit. i. 156 no. 174 pi. 21, 20 ( = my fig. 641).
6 Infra § 7 (c).
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Zeus Areios is hardly to be separated from Zeus Strategos who,
together with Hera, is mentioned in an inscription of 69 A.D. as the
patron deity of Amastris in Paphlagonia1. (^//^z'-autonomous coppers
of the town, issued in early imperial times, exhibit his bust with a
remarkable tress of wavy hair above the forehead (fig. 638)-'. On
coppers struck by Antoninus Pius he stands in a statuesque pose, his
Fig. 638. Fig. 639. Fig. 640. Fig. 641.
left hand swathed in an ample kimdtion, his right holding a spear,
and an eagle at his feet (fig. 63c))3. Other pieces struck by the same
emperor show him grouped with his consort, the sceptre-bearing
Hera (fig. 640)4,—a type repeated in inferior style by Tranquillina
(fig. 641 )~D. It is probable that Zeus Otlrios, whose sanctuary stood on
the eastern side of the Thracian Bosporos6, was a god of like aspect.
phorus; et multo plura eiusmodi apud haruspices et Romanos veteres inveneris. The
passage is thus printed by G. F. Hildebrancl (ed. min. 1843).
But for Propagator (E. Aust in Roscher Lex. Myth. ii. 746,
751, supra i. 552 n. 1 (?)) I should read Propugnator (E. Aust
loc. cit. ii. 751), thereby obtaining an unbroken series of
military titles. On imperial coins with the legends iovi
propvgnatori (or propvgnat) and iovis propvgnator
see Rasche Lex. Num. iv. 921, Suppl. iii. 156 b, 162.
I figure a 'first brass,' struck by Alexander Severus, from my
collection.
1 G. Hirschfeld in the Sitzungsber. d. Akad. d. Wiss.
Berliii 1888 p. 876 b no. 27, R. Cagnat—G. Lafaye Inscrip-
tiones Graecae ad res Romanas pertinentes Paris 1906 iii. 32 no. 89 6 orj/aos \ fiaprvpei
llap/j-evia^K^ip j /cat QapvaKr},...../cat | etf^erat Ad 'ErpaTrjyi^ | /cat "Hpa, rot? irarpioi^ 6e]ois
/cat wpoeiXTuj(a)Lv tt}s | woKeuis,..... | irovs (3\p' (se. 132 of the Pompeian era = 69 a.d.).
2 Waddington—Babelon—Reinach Monri. gr. d''As. Min. i. 138 b no. 37 pi. 18, 23,
no. 32 pi. 18, 24, no. 33 pi. 18, 25 (=my fig. 638), no. 34 pi. r8, 26, no. 35 pi. 18,
27, Brit. Miis. Cat. Coins Pontus, etc. p. 85 pi. 20, 1 f., Overbeck Gr. Kunstmyth. Zeus
p. 223 MiAnztaf. 3, 21, Head Hist, man.- p. 506.
3 Waddington—Babelon—Reinach op. cit. i. 142 no. 61 pi. 19, 15 ( = my fig. 639),
W. Abeken in the Ann. d. Inst. 1839 xi. 64 pi. A, 2, Overbeck Gr. Kunstmyth. Zeus
pp. 134, 164, 223 Miinztaf. 2, 27, Miiller—Wieseler—Wernicke Ant. Den/on. i. 98 b
pi. 9, 29,
4 Waddington—Babelon—Reinach op. cit. i. 142 no. 62 pi. 19, 16 ( = my fig. 640)
double-struck.
3 Waddington—Babelon—Reinach op. cit. i. 156 no. 174 pi. 21, 20 ( = my fig. 641).
6 Infra § 7 (c).
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