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)

75° Gradual elimination of the thunderbolt

now at Paris. An interesting variation is a well-preserved but heavy-
looking bronze found in Hungary (pi. xxxiv)1, which—like sundry
coins (fig. 6g6)2, gems3, etc.4—reverses the type, putting the sceptre

Fig. 699.

in the god's right hand, the thunderbolt in his left. A second little
statuette of silver with gilded himdtion, which passed from the
Castellani collection into the British Museum (fig. 6gg)5, makes

1 H. B. Walters Brit. Mus. Cat. Bronzes p. 170 no. 909 and in his British Museum:
Select Bronzes London 1915 pi. 39 with text, Clarac Mus, de Sculpt, iii. 23 f. pi. 398
fig. 668 = Reinach Rep. Stat. i. 186 no. 4, O. Rayet Monuments de Part antique Paris 1884
i pi. 43 with text p. 4 ff., A. S. Murray Greek Bronzes London 1898 p. 61 ff. fig. 25,
Overbeck "Gr. Kunstmyth. Zeus pp. 121 f., 127 f. no. 23. Restored: sceptre, end of
thunderbolt, and both feet. Zeus is wearing a large bay-wreath with central boss.
Height : ~t\ ins. Patina : blackish. PI. xxxiv is from a photograph by Mr W. H. Hales.

2 E.g. supra i. 752 fig. 551. Fig. 696 is from a rare coin of Dokimeion (Ichje Kara-
hissar), a Macedonian colony in Phrygia (A0KIM6fiX MAK6A0 NftN), struck under
Lucilla and now in my collection.

3 E.g. supra i. 235 fig. 172.

4 Overbeck Gr. Kunstmyth. Zeus pp. 126—128 ('Dritte Classe') nos. 22 and 23
{supra n. 1). Cp. supra i 42 f. pi. vii.

5 Brit. Mus. Cat. Silver Plate p. 11 no. 36 fig. Height: o-o63m. Fig. 699 is from a
photograph by Mr R. B. Fleming.