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)

Gradual elimination of the thunderbolt 747

but tended to move the right hand from the side and raised the left

Fig. 685.

arm higher in order to obtain a more imposing effect (fig. 686)1. The

1 Overbeck Gr. Kunstmyth. Zeus pp. 150—152 ('Elfte Gruppe') nos. 66—72 with
fig. 18. I illustrate Overbeck's no. 69 from Babelon—Blanchet Cat. Bronzes de la Bibl.
Nat. p. 1 f. no. 3 fig. ( = my fig. 686). This is a statuette of praiseworthy Roman style.
Its eyes were inlaid with silver, its nipples with red copper. Height: o'i66m. Patina :
brown. It was found in 1763 at Chalon-sur-Saone, in an oaken box along with seventeen
other bronzes, by a peasant at work on his vineyard. For other examples of careful
Roman art see von Sacken Ant. Bronzen Wien i. 9 pi. 7, 6 = Reinach Rep. Stat. ii. 4 no. 3,