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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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710 The spear of Zeus

head of Zeus with his double axe, stands aloof on the right, his leg
supported on a rock and his arm thrown up in astonishment at the
result of his blow1. Behind Thalna is a pomegranate-tree2 with an

Fig. 651.

eagle3 perched upon it; behind Thanr, a bay-tree. The back of
the handle shows the face of Aphrodite, with a flower4 in her hair,
surrounded by leafage and flanked by a couple of doves. It will be

1 His pose recalls on the one hand that of Hephaistos on a black-figured amphora in
the Louvre (no. E 852, infra § 9 (h) ii (0)), on the other hand that of Hermes in the east
pediment of the Parthenon [infra § 9 (h) ii (#)).

• 2 Gerhard op. cit. iii. 68 takes it to be 'eine Myrtenstaude,' noting that the fruit of the
myrtle resembles a small pomegranate.

3 Id. ib. says ' mit darauf sitzender Taube,' but admits that the hooked beak is a
difficulty. The suggestion of myrtle and dove would hardly have been made, had it not
been for the erroneous notion that Thalna was a sort of Aphrodite (Turari).

4 Gerhard op. cit. iii. 69: 'eine Rose.'
 
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