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Cook, Arthur B.
Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 2,2): Zeus god of the dark sky (thunder and lightning): Appendixes and index — Cambridge, 1925

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The Mountain-cults of Zeus 873

Zeus Epdkrios 'on the Summit1,' Zeus Karaios 'of the Head2,' Zeus Lopheites

loc. cit., but also in Plout. loc. cit. Both passages were emended in the same manner 224
years before by G. Cuper Apotheosis vel consecratio Homeri Amstelodami 1683 p. 16.

(7) Imperial coppers of Magnesia ad Maeandrum show Zeus 'A/cpcuos as a nude standing
figure, with right hand supported on sceptre, left holding thunderbolt (Imhoof-Blumer
Gr. Miinzen p. 120 no. 312 AKPAIOC AAATNIHTCON Geta, id. Hleinas. Miinzen i.
79 no. 27 MATNHTCjO N Z6YC AKPAIOC Antoninus Pius).

(8) At Smyrna Ulpius Traianus, father of the emperor Trajan, brought an aqueduct
to the precinct of Zeus 'A/cpcuos (Corp. inscr. Gr. ii no. 3146, 1 ff. itc tov eicraxOevTos |
iidaros irri tov ALa tov \ 'A/cpcuoi' iirl OvXttIov | Tpaiavov tov avdvirarov, | k.t.X.). Quasi-
autonomous and imperial coppers show the god'shead, usually inscribed Z6YC A K PA I OC
or ZEVC AKPAIOC or ZCVC AKPAIOC (Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Ionia p. 253flf.
pi. 27, 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, Hunter Cat. Coins ii. 368 ff. pi. 52, 8, Head Hist, num.'1 p. 594.

Fig. 812. Fig. 813. Fig. 814.

Fig. 8f2 is from a specimen of mine), or seated figure holding Nike and sceptre, some-
times inscribed AKPAIOC or AKPAIOS (Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Ionia pp. 250 pi. 26,
8, 266, 272 pi. 28, i^, 287 pi. 29, 12 (=iny fig. 813), 297, 302 pi. 39, 5, 307 pi. 39, 11
(=supra p. 319 fig. 201), Hunter Cat. Coins ii. 378 no. 202, 379 no. 203, 389 pi. 52, 18,
Head Hist, num.'1 p. 594).

(9) At Temnos in Aiolis, on a hill above the Hermos, ^aw'-autonomous coppers of
s. iii a.d. bear the bust of Zeus 'A-fpaios, inscribed SEVC A K PA 10 C (Brit. Mus. Cat.
Coins Troas, etc. p. 145 no. 22, Hunter Cat. Coins ii. 311 no. 7, Head Hist, num.2
p. 557. Fig. 814 is from a specimen of mine).

(10) L. Holstein on Steph. Byz. s.v. MvtiXtivt] (ed. Lipsiae 1825 ii. 457) says : 'In
Cimeliarchio Mediceo nummus habetur, in cuius uno latere circum Iovem, Neptunum et
Plutonem: OEOI AKPAIOI MYTI AH NAIflN- in averso circum caput Iovis:
ZEYC BOYAAIOO quinam sint Qeoi d/e/>cuoi...docet Pollux lib. ix. cap. 5. his verbis:
Td 5e Srj/uoaia, axpoTroXis ■ ijv /ecu aKpov b\v cittols ko.1 ttoXlv Kal tovs iv avr-g deovs, aKpalovs
kcli iroXteis.' This coin, cited by numismatists from Eckhel Doctr. num. vet.'1 ii. 504 to
Head Hist, num.1 p. 488 inclusive, has disappeared from Head Hist, num.'1 p. 562^

(n) At Akrai (Palazzolo) in Sicily the Museum of Baron Judica had a base inscribed
AI 01 I [ ]PAIOY. J- Schubring in the Jahrb. f. Philol. u. Pddag. Suppl. 1867 iv.
672 fig. 2 supplies ['Ayo]paiov. But U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff in the Inscr. Gr.
Sic. It. no. 203 with greater probability cj. ['A/c]pcu'oi».

See further Scholl—Studemund anecd. i. 265 'HirideTa Aids (20) aKpaiov, Kallim. h.
Zeus 81 f. i'feo 5' avrbs \ aKpys ev iroXLeacnv, Aristeid. or. 1. 6 (i. 7 Dindorf) rds aKpoiroXeis
e^etXov Ad, k.t.~X.

1 Zeus ''Eir&Kpios. Polyzelos ILovauiv yovai frag. 1 (Frag. com. Gr. ii. 869 f. Meineke)
ap. et. mag. p. 352, 49 ff. 'E7rd/cptos Zet/s- e7r' &Kpas yap tQv 6pi2v Idptiovro (3wfxovs rt3 All,
otov tov Tp.7)TTLov, tov Hapvrjdlov. UoXv^ijXos ~Mova<2v yovah- "Lepov yap ov (A. Meineke
cj. iepeus yap wv, cp. Metagenes Adpat frag. 4 Meineke ap. schol. Aristoph. az\ 873)
t€TvxVKas Eiranpiov Atos." So Hesych. s.v. 'EiraKpios' Zevs. 6 iiri twv aicpuv tlov opujv

[2 For note 2 see p. 874.]
 
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