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)

8o8 Zeus Keraunobolos, Keraunios;

rightly that this votive altar, at Ghieuldiz near Kula, was dedicated to Zeus Kepavvios by
a master who had escaped when two of his slaves were struck : cp. Suet. Aug. 29.
M. Clerc in the Bull, Cor?-. Hell. 1886 x. 401 no. 4 Aids | Kepavviov | dvvapus a stone at
Thyateira bearing this inscription with a thunderbolt carved above it. The stone probably
marks g spot struck by lightning, which, as being a power proceeding from Zeus, is here
called his ovvapis. G. Radet id. 1887 xi. 469^ no. 36 Ad Kepavviup | Tei/j.6deos | virep
tov dpeif/avTos \ evxV" on a small marble pillar at Yaguerdi near Thyateira. J. Keil—
A. von Premerstein in the Denkschr. d. Akad. Wien 1911 ii .Abh. p. 17 no. 24
[—w]/v/3<xt77s Ad Kepav\viu> evxV" on a broken block of bluish marble at Siinetdji near
Thyateira, in lettering of s. ii a.d., cid. ib. 1914 i Abh. p. 12 no. 11 <y <=tovs ttj', prj(vbs)
Yop\irialov 5 afriovTos). Ad W,?M \'Aepiio ' App.i\avbs cra\Tova\pios evxaPL<rrv\pLOV <y at
Topalar, below a relief representing an eagle (the appellative 'Aepiu is on an erasure of
Ke pavviw), p. 13 no. 13 [-----] [ [—Ai]t Kepawiw at Oraklar, two hours S. of Borlu).

(7) Priene (F. Hiller von Gaertringen Inschriften von Priene Berlin 1906 no. 113, 80 ff.
[r]ov re p.rp>bs rod I 'ApreixicnCovos ttji b\w\t)eKaTT)i TrapaffT-qaas tt/v eid:io~p.ev7][v] yeiveadat tlol
Ad I tQi Kepavviui dvaiav peTeowKev pev tlov lepwv to?[s] re 7ro\tVcus Kal Trapoi\Kois Kal
kcltolkols Kal ije^ois Kal 'Poj/xai'ois leal SovXois, tovs de /3[o]i'Aei't<xs Kal rds avvapxi as koI
eoeiirviaev (v rip [r]o0 6eov tottwi after 84 B.C.).

(8) Pergamon (M. Frankel Die Inschriften von Pergarhon Berlin 1890 i. 134 no. 232

Ad Kepa[v]vicp \---on a marble base with oak-wreath and fillets, ib. ii. 243 no. 329

A[d] I KepavvLw[i] \ Y. ToiAios | Awpos on a small altar of white marble).

(9) Nikopolis on the Danube, in Moesia Inferior (A. von Domaszewski in the Arch.-ep.
Mitth. 1886 x. 242 no. 7, 2 ff. Ad Kepavviep j evxa-pLcrrov (sic) | 77 woXis dvearqaev \ k.t.A.
on an altar of 233 a.d. at Jeni-Nikup).

(10) Thasos (E. L. Hicks in the Journ. Hell. Stud. 1887 viii. 425 no. 29 = S. Reinach
Chroniqncs d1 Orient Paris 1891 p. 1~£> = Inscr. Gr. ins. viii no. 362 Aids Kepavviov followed
by a carved thunderbolt).

(11) Kalymna (C. T. Newton in The Collection of Ancient Greek Inscriptions in the
British Aliiseiun Oxford 1883 ii. 99 f. no. 321, 8 ff. tov ttclvtlcv \ [Kap]wu>v t[ov SJi^e/CT?
aojTTjpa Af[a] J [Ke]pavvLov Kal tovs Xolttovs 6e[ovs] k.t.\. on a marble stele found in the
temple of Apollon ; lettering crowded and late).

(12) Melos ('E0. 'Apx- no. 3544 p. 1846 cited by K. Keil in Philologzis 1863 Suppl. ii.
611 f. "Sepwvi (Ayadij tvxv) —e/3aff[r]oj | ~SlapKos' Avtwvios [rjXaO/cos | iepeiis Atds Kepavviov
Kal 6e wv ovpaviwv vTrr]peT7]s ivepioi Koobp.rjKa Ad Kal deols ovpaviois | iSlais daTravais iepbv Kal
dav\\ov ^epao-Tijov).

(13) Elasson in Thessaly (Inscr. Gr. sept. iii. 2 no. 1275, A. S. Arvanitopoullos in the
'Ecp.'Apx- 1913 p- 162 fig. 16).

(14) Argos (P. Roussel—J. Hatzfeld in the Bull. Corr. Hell. 1909 xxxiii. 510 no. 27
a small round altar of marble inscribed in late lettering Atos | Kepav\viov).

(15) Olympia (Paus. 5. 14. 7 evda Se tt?s oidas rd depLiXid ecrrt tt)s Qivofiaov, 8vo evTavda
eicri (3wp.oi, Atos re EpKeiov—tovtov 6 Oivbfiaos ecpaivero aiiTos OLKoSoprjcraadaL—, Tip 5e
Kepavvicp Ad vaTepov eTroirjaavTO e/xoi doKeiv f3to/j.bv, 6V' e's tov Oivo/idov tt]v oiKiav KaTicrk7)\pev
b Kepavvbs).

(16) Alban Mt (Inscr. Gr. Sic. It. no. tn8 Ad Kepavvlui on a rude altar found at the
foot of the mountain).

(17) Rome (P. Gauckler in the Comptes rendus de I'Acad. des inscr. et belles-lettres
1907 p. 148 ff. records an altar in white marble (height o-92m), found in the grove of
Furrina on the east slope of the Ianiculum, adorned with two eagles, two Ammon-masks,
two bucrania, festoons, ewer, patera, Gorgoneion, etc. and inscribed Ad | l\epavv'up j
"ApTepLLS \ 17 Kal 'ZiSwvia \ Kvwpla j et, ewLTayijs | avedr/Kev \ Kal ^svvcpes (sic) \ Qoppives (sic),
i.e. a dedication to Zeus Kepavvws and the Nymphae Forrinae by a Phoenician woman
of Kypros, called Artemis the Sidonian. The Gorgon's head perhaps symbolises the
Forrinae assimilated to the Furiae. See further G. Wissowa in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc.
vii. 383).

(18) Sicily (Inscr. Gr. Sic. It. no. 2407, 3 a—d: see infra p. 812 ff.).