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)

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feet two of the reliefs give a gliding snake (figs. 782, 783). In the
main this type is clearly adapted from a common Hellenic scheme,
that of Zeus advancing to the attack1. Accordingly, its least barbaric

Fig. 7S4.

example (fig. 784) is accompanied by the dedication ' To Zeus
Zbelth iou rdos.'

The second type, of which there is but one specimen (fig. 785)2,

extending left arm, on which an eagle is perched, to touch a pillar. At his right side, on
a smaller scale, stands a draped female figure. Height: 0*17™.

(5) Marble relief from Bouzadjilar in the district of Sliven, now at Sofia (S. Reinach
in the Bulletin archiologique du comiti des travaux historiques el scientifiques 1894
p. 425 f. pi. 20, 1 (= my fig. 784), P. Perdrizet in the Revue des etudes anciennes 1899 p. 23
no. 2, G. Seure in the Rev. Et. Gr. 1913 xxvi. 235 f. fig. 6), inscribed Act Z/3eA#ioiipi5[co] j
Mo/cct7ropis bdpov. Zeus, bearded and wearing himdtion, stands towards the right, with a
twisted bolt in his raised right hand and an eagle on his extended left, beneath which is
a small rectangular altar. Height : o-35m.

1 Supra p. 739 ff.

2 Marble relief from Soukhatche"m. the district of BiJla Slatina, now at Sofia (G. Seure
in the Rev. Et. Gr. 1913 xxvi. 233 ff. fig. 5 (=my fig. 785)), uninscribed. Height : o'i9m.

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