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)

766 Modifications in the shape

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first under the Kassite kings, is formed of curves (figs. 724, 725)1

Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania Series D vol. iv) Philadelphia
1907 p. 120 fig. 47, 16, M. Jastrow op. cit. p. 22 f. pi. 12, no. 40).

Fig. 719 from the kitdurru of Gula-
'-•^s^^^^^'l"?*-' Eresh of about the time of Enlil-

^^J^^^^S^^^^;' ^t-* , nadin-aplu (c. 1123—1117) in the

British Museum no. 102485 (L. W.
King op. cit. p. 76 ff. pi. 3).

Fig. 720 from a kudurru of the time
of Marduk-nadin-akhe (c. 1117—
1105) in the British Museum no. 90840
(L. W. King op. cit. p. 42 ff. pis. 44
and 50, W. J. Hinke op. cit. p. 30
fig. 12, 15).

Fig. 721 from an alabaster tablet of
Shamshi-Adad iv (825—812 B.C.) in
the British Museum (A. H. Layard
A second series of the Monuments of
Nineveh London 1853 pi. 4, M. Jas-
trow op. cit. p. 68 pi- 32, no. 96).

Fig. 722 from a black limestone
tablet of Meli-Shipak (c. 1204—
1189 B.C.) found at Sousa and now
in the Louvre (W. J. Hinke op. cit.
p. 28 fig. 11, 16, W. H. Ward The
Seal Cylinders etc. pp. 391 fig. 1286,
399, M. Jastrow cit. p. 13 f. pi. 8,
no. 29) : lightning-fork on a shrine
borne by a crouching ox.

Fig. 723 from a limestone tablet
of the time of Nebuchadrezzar i
(c. 1140—1123) found at or near Abu-
Habba and now in the British
Museum no. 90858 (L. W. King op.
cit. p. 29 ff. pi. 91, W. H. Ward The
Seal Cylinders etc. pp. 391 fig. 1287,
399, M. Jastrow op. cit. p. 22 pi. 12,
no. 39) : lightning-fork on a crouching
ox. Cp. other examples of the same
type in W. J. Hinke op. cit. p. 25
fig. 10, 14 = M. Jastrow op. cit. p. 20 f.
pi. 11, no. 37 ; W. J. Hinke op. cit.
p. 91 fig. 28, 16 = W. H. Ward The
Seal Cylinders etc. p. 390 fig. 1285 a -
M. Jastrow op. cit. p. 13 pi. 8, no. 28.
1 First on a fragmentary kudurru
Fig. 724. °f the Kassite dynasty (M. J. de Mor-

gan Delegation en Perse Memoires
Paris 1900 i. 176 fig. 382, W. J. Hinke op. cit. pp. 41 fig- 18, 82) : Ramman standing
on a humped bull with a lightning-fork in his hand.

Fig. 724 from a Hittite stele of dolerite (height i'28m), found in Babylon and referred
by R. Koldewey to s. x B.C. (R. Koldewey ' Die hettitische Inschrift' in the Wissen-
schaftliche Verbffentlichungen der deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft Leipzig 1900 i. 1 ff. pis. 1 —
3, L. Messerschmidt Corpus inscriptionum Hettiticarum Berlin 1900 p. 3 f. pi. 1, 5, id.