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 755

' It is of Roman execution but must have been made by an artist
thoroughly imbued with the Greek spirit1.' Another choice example
is the small seated Zeus in silver with gilded drapery, thunderbolt,

Fig. 697.

etc. (pi. xxxii, 2)2, which formed part of the Macon find mentioned
in a foregoing note3. But more often the Romans were content with
very slipshod reproductions of the type : I give (fig. 69s)4 a sample

1 The same might be said of De Ridder Cat. Bronzes de la coll. de Clercq p. 139 f.
no. 215 pi. 36, 1 (height: oTy"').

2 Brit. Mns. Cat. Silver Plate p. 10f. no. 35 pi. 6. Height : o'072m. The thunder-
bolt on the lap of Zeus is ornamented with two Corinthian capitals. PL xxxii, 2 is from a
photograph by Mr R. B. Fleming.

3 Supra p. 746 n. 2.

4 A. C. P. de Tubieres Comte de Caylus Kecueil d'antiqitites dgyptiennes, itrusqnes,
grecques, romaines et gauloises Paris 1767 vii. 286 f. pi. 82, 1 (reversed), Babelon—
Blanchet Cat. Bronzes de la Bibl. Nat. p. 9 f. no. 17 fig. (=my fig. 698), Reinach Rip.
Stat. ii. 13 no. 6, Overbeck Gr. Kunstmyth. Zeus p. 116 no. 16, p. 122. The eyes are
incrusted with silver. Height: o-i22'". Patina: dark green.

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