DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.14697#0028
876
Appendix B
Hyftsistos 'the Most High1,' there is reason to suspect that the epithet had
originally a literal rather than a metaphorical sense.
(6) At Rome the road between the Curia and the Basilica Aemilia yielded a block
inscribed Ad'TTrdruL (Inscr. Gr. Sic. It. no. 994).
(7) An honorary inscription of s. ii a. d. found at Priene contains the clause dvaypa\pdrw
(sic) {To)de [r]6 iprj(pLirpLa eis arrjXrjv \ev\icoy \idov kcu dva.Te6r)\j\w iv tQi iepu)[i r]ov At6s rod
'Yir&Tov (sc. in Thessaly(?)) (F. Hiller von Gaertringen Inschriften von PrieneBexYm 1906
no. 71, 28 f.).
(8) M. Schweisthal 'L'image de Niobe et l'autel de Zeus Hypatos au mont Sipyle' in
the Gaz. Arch. 1887 xii. 224 argues that Zeus on Mt Sipylos was invoked under the name
of"T7raros, cp. Nonn. Dion. 13. 533 ff. 6\pe dk SvavMpov old/j.a kcli vBarbecraav dvdyKf]v \ Zeus
viraros (vSaros codd. F. M.) irprjvve, /cat e/c 'ZlttvXolo Kap-qvwv \ KXv^op.evr]s <i>pvyir]s TraXiv-
dypeTov rfXaaev vdwp. But virtxTos is a commonish epithet of Zeus in the poets (Bruchmann
Epith. dear. p. 141) and is used elsewhere by Nonnos (Dion. 33. 162 Zei)s viraros teal
Oovpos"Apy]s kcli deapLios'EppLTjs) without local significance.
A leaden anchor, found off the coast ofKyrene and now in the British Museum, bears
in relief the ship's name XEYC YTTATOC (C Torr Ancient Ships Cambridge 1894
p. 71 f. pi. 8, 45, 46 and 47 ( = my fig. 815)). The lettering points to s. i a.d.
According to schol. T. 77. 13. 837 some persons understood Aios avyas as denoting rd
v\pr)Xd tu>v opuv !
1 Examples of this appellative have been collected, classified, and discussed by E.
Schiirer in the Sitzungsber. d. Akad. d. Wiss. Berlin 1897 pp. 200—225 and F. Cumont
Hypsistos (Supplement a la Revue de I''instruction publique en Belgiqite, 1897) Bruxelles
1897 pp. 1—15, id. in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. ix. 444—450 s.v. "Txpiaros. I am
under deep obligation to their labours, as the following list will show.
Zeus "TtpL<TTos was worshipped (1) at Athens in the Pnyx. For a good survey of the
problems that cluster about this much-disputed site see in primis J. M. Crow and
J. Thacher Clarke 'The Athenian Pnyx' in Papers of the American School of Classical
Studies at Athens 1885—1886 iv. 205—260. The view adopted from H. N. Ulrichs by
Appendix B
Hyftsistos 'the Most High1,' there is reason to suspect that the epithet had
originally a literal rather than a metaphorical sense.
(6) At Rome the road between the Curia and the Basilica Aemilia yielded a block
inscribed Ad'TTrdruL (Inscr. Gr. Sic. It. no. 994).
(7) An honorary inscription of s. ii a. d. found at Priene contains the clause dvaypa\pdrw
(sic) {To)de [r]6 iprj(pLirpLa eis arrjXrjv \ev\icoy \idov kcu dva.Te6r)\j\w iv tQi iepu)[i r]ov At6s rod
'Yir&Tov (sc. in Thessaly(?)) (F. Hiller von Gaertringen Inschriften von PrieneBexYm 1906
no. 71, 28 f.).
(8) M. Schweisthal 'L'image de Niobe et l'autel de Zeus Hypatos au mont Sipyle' in
the Gaz. Arch. 1887 xii. 224 argues that Zeus on Mt Sipylos was invoked under the name
of"T7raros, cp. Nonn. Dion. 13. 533 ff. 6\pe dk SvavMpov old/j.a kcli vBarbecraav dvdyKf]v \ Zeus
viraros (vSaros codd. F. M.) irprjvve, /cat e/c 'ZlttvXolo Kap-qvwv \ KXv^op.evr]s <i>pvyir]s TraXiv-
dypeTov rfXaaev vdwp. But virtxTos is a commonish epithet of Zeus in the poets (Bruchmann
Epith. dear. p. 141) and is used elsewhere by Nonnos (Dion. 33. 162 Zei)s viraros teal
Oovpos"Apy]s kcli deapLios'EppLTjs) without local significance.
A leaden anchor, found off the coast ofKyrene and now in the British Museum, bears
in relief the ship's name XEYC YTTATOC (C Torr Ancient Ships Cambridge 1894
p. 71 f. pi. 8, 45, 46 and 47 ( = my fig. 815)). The lettering points to s. i a.d.
According to schol. T. 77. 13. 837 some persons understood Aios avyas as denoting rd
v\pr)Xd tu>v opuv !
1 Examples of this appellative have been collected, classified, and discussed by E.
Schiirer in the Sitzungsber. d. Akad. d. Wiss. Berlin 1897 pp. 200—225 and F. Cumont
Hypsistos (Supplement a la Revue de I''instruction publique en Belgiqite, 1897) Bruxelles
1897 pp. 1—15, id. in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. ix. 444—450 s.v. "Txpiaros. I am
under deep obligation to their labours, as the following list will show.
Zeus "TtpL<TTos was worshipped (1) at Athens in the Pnyx. For a good survey of the
problems that cluster about this much-disputed site see in primis J. M. Crow and
J. Thacher Clarke 'The Athenian Pnyx' in Papers of the American School of Classical
Studies at Athens 1885—1886 iv. 205—260. The view adopted from H. N. Ulrichs by