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The Mountain-cults of Zeus 957
Philadelpheia1.
Mount Tmolos2.
Tralleis3.
9. 40. 11 {supra i. 406), Quint, inst.or. 9. 3. 57 invenitur apud poetas quoque {sc. gradatio)
ut apud Homerum de sceptro, quod a love ad Agamemnonem usque deducit : et apud
nostrum etiam tragicum {Trag. Rom. frag. p. 288 f. Ribbeck) ' love propagatus (O.
Ribbeck cj. patre prognatus) est, ut perhibent, Tantalus, j ex Tantalo ortus Pelops, ex
Pelope autem satus | Atreus, qui nostrum porro propagat genus' = Diom. ars gramm. 1
p. 448, 25 ff. Keil, Quint, hist. or. 9. 4. 140 {Trag. Rom. frag. p. 289 Ribbeck) ' en impero
Argis, sceptra (Sen. epist. 80. 7 quotes the line with regna for sceptra) mihi liquit Pelops').
Coppers of Magnesia ad Sipylum, struck in s. ii—i B.C., have obv. head of Zeus (or
perhaps of Mt Sipylos ?) to right, laureate [Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Lydia p. 137 pi. 15, 1
and 2, p. 139 pi. 15, 7, Hunter Cat. Coins ii. 455 no. 3), or rev. Zeus standing, in chiton
and himdtion, with an eagle on his extended right hand, a transverse sceptre in his left
{Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Lydia p. 137 pi. 15, 3), or Zeus and Hermes (?) joining hands with
a spear between them {id. p. 138 pi. 15, 4). Qztasi-avLtonomous coppers of imperial
date (M. Aurelius to Gallienus) repeat the obv. head of Zeus (or Mt Sipylos : see supra i.
102 n. 5 fig. 75) to right, laureate [Brit. Mus. Cat. Cows Lydia p. 139 ff. pi. 16, 2 f.,
Imhoof-Blumer Kleinas. Miinzen ii. 521 no. 1). A copper of Philippus Senior has rev.
a naked Zeus holding a thunderbolt in his left hand and resting with his right on a spear
{Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Lydia p. 151 no. 80).
1 Zeus Kopv<paTos {supra p. 285 n. o no. (3), p. 869 n. 1 fig. S04).
2 According to Eumelos, Zeus was born in Lydia ; and on the top of Mt Tmolos, west
of Sardeis, was a place called Toval Atos 'Teriov and subsequently Aevaiov (Lyd. de mens.
4. 71 p. 123, 14 ff. Wiinsch YJip-qhos 6 KopivOios {frag. 18 Kinkel) tov Aia ev rfj Kad'
i]/j.as AvSia TexdrjvaL ftouKeTai., /cat p.S.Wov d\7]devei offov ev iffropia- in yap /cot vvv irpbs
t(2 SvtlkcS rrjs ^apSiavQv 7r6Aews piepei e7r' d/cpwpetas rod TpwXov towos effriv, 5s 7rd\at /lev
roj'at Atos 'Teriov vvv Se wapaTpaireiarjs rip xpovip tt)s Aefecus Asvctlov (G. Kinkel prints
Aevaiov and is followed by K. Tilmpel in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. v. 281) irpoaayop-
everai). A bronze coin of Sardeis, struck under Iulia Domna, has for its reverse type an
infant Zeus seated on the ground with an eagle hovering above him {Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins
Lydia p. 261 pi. 27, 6 = supra i. 151 fig. 118). Zeus Sa/Jdftos brought the babe Dionysos
to Mt Tmolos (Orph. h. Sabaz. 48. 1 ff. k\v8l, irdrep, TZpbvov vli, 2a/3dfte, Kvbip,e 5a.ip.ov, \
6s Hclkxov Aibvvaov, epij3pop.ov, elpa<piuT7)v \ prjpip eyKaTepa\pas, oirus rereXecr/xe^os i\drj |
Tp.u)\ov is rjyddeov irapd 0'"Iwrav {Trap linrav codd.) naWiirapriov. So O. Kern in Geneth-
liakon Carl Robert zum 8. Marz 1910 tiberreicht von der Graeca Halensis Berlin 1910
p. 90 f. and in his Orphicorum Fragmenta Berolini 1922 p. 222 f., W. Quandt De Baccho
ab Alexandri aetate in Asia Minore culto Halis Saxonum 1913 p. 257 f.). See further
K. Buresch Klaros Leipzig 1889 p. 16 f., Gruppe Gr. Myth. Re/, p. 284 n. 11.
3 Tralleis {A'idin) occupied a high plateau on a southern spur of Mt Messogis. Its
akropolis (320™) overlooks the little river Eudonos, a tributary of the Maiandros (map by
C. Humann and W. Dorpfeld in the Ath. Mitth. 1893 xviii. 395 ff. pi. 12). The town was
said to have been founded by Argives and Thracians (Strab. 649 KTia'p.a oi (paaiv elvai rds
TpctXXets 'Apyeicov /cat tlvwv Qpq.Kuiv TpaXXtwp, dtp' tov rovvop.a, cp. Steph. Byz. s.v. TpaXXta
and Diod. 17.65). A bronze coin struck by M. Aurelius has for reverse type TPAAA6Y
C KTICCTHC {sic) Tralleus as a soldier, standing to left, with right hand outstretched
and left supported on spear (Imhoof-Blumer Gr. Miinzen p. 203 no. 642 b, Head Hist,
num? p. 661).
Larisa, a village higher up on the slopes of Messogis, thirty stades from Tralleis, gave
its name to Zeus Aaptcrtos (Strab. 440 (in a list of towns called Aaptcra) /cat tQv TpdXXewe
diexovaa Kup.r] Tpidnovra ffraSiovs virep rrjs iroKews iirl Kaiiarpov wediov otd r?js JileaajyiBos
iovruv Kara to tt)s 'lo~odp6p.r]s M'jjrpos lepov, bp.oLav ttjv 6£<tiv /cat tt}v apeTrjV 'ixov<ya TV
Kpep-aarfj Aaplari (so cod. A, with another cr added by the second hand. Xapio-ar] cett.
codd.)- /cat yap evvSpos /cat dp.irekb<pvTos- tcrws 5e /cat 6 Aaptcrtos (so cod. A, with another
Philadelpheia1.
Mount Tmolos2.
Tralleis3.
9. 40. 11 {supra i. 406), Quint, inst.or. 9. 3. 57 invenitur apud poetas quoque {sc. gradatio)
ut apud Homerum de sceptro, quod a love ad Agamemnonem usque deducit : et apud
nostrum etiam tragicum {Trag. Rom. frag. p. 288 f. Ribbeck) ' love propagatus (O.
Ribbeck cj. patre prognatus) est, ut perhibent, Tantalus, j ex Tantalo ortus Pelops, ex
Pelope autem satus | Atreus, qui nostrum porro propagat genus' = Diom. ars gramm. 1
p. 448, 25 ff. Keil, Quint, hist. or. 9. 4. 140 {Trag. Rom. frag. p. 289 Ribbeck) ' en impero
Argis, sceptra (Sen. epist. 80. 7 quotes the line with regna for sceptra) mihi liquit Pelops').
Coppers of Magnesia ad Sipylum, struck in s. ii—i B.C., have obv. head of Zeus (or
perhaps of Mt Sipylos ?) to right, laureate [Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Lydia p. 137 pi. 15, 1
and 2, p. 139 pi. 15, 7, Hunter Cat. Coins ii. 455 no. 3), or rev. Zeus standing, in chiton
and himdtion, with an eagle on his extended right hand, a transverse sceptre in his left
{Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Lydia p. 137 pi. 15, 3), or Zeus and Hermes (?) joining hands with
a spear between them {id. p. 138 pi. 15, 4). Qztasi-avLtonomous coppers of imperial
date (M. Aurelius to Gallienus) repeat the obv. head of Zeus (or Mt Sipylos : see supra i.
102 n. 5 fig. 75) to right, laureate [Brit. Mus. Cat. Cows Lydia p. 139 ff. pi. 16, 2 f.,
Imhoof-Blumer Kleinas. Miinzen ii. 521 no. 1). A copper of Philippus Senior has rev.
a naked Zeus holding a thunderbolt in his left hand and resting with his right on a spear
{Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Lydia p. 151 no. 80).
1 Zeus Kopv<paTos {supra p. 285 n. o no. (3), p. 869 n. 1 fig. S04).
2 According to Eumelos, Zeus was born in Lydia ; and on the top of Mt Tmolos, west
of Sardeis, was a place called Toval Atos 'Teriov and subsequently Aevaiov (Lyd. de mens.
4. 71 p. 123, 14 ff. Wiinsch YJip-qhos 6 KopivOios {frag. 18 Kinkel) tov Aia ev rfj Kad'
i]/j.as AvSia TexdrjvaL ftouKeTai., /cat p.S.Wov d\7]devei offov ev iffropia- in yap /cot vvv irpbs
t(2 SvtlkcS rrjs ^apSiavQv 7r6Aews piepei e7r' d/cpwpetas rod TpwXov towos effriv, 5s 7rd\at /lev
roj'at Atos 'Teriov vvv Se wapaTpaireiarjs rip xpovip tt)s Aefecus Asvctlov (G. Kinkel prints
Aevaiov and is followed by K. Tilmpel in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. v. 281) irpoaayop-
everai). A bronze coin of Sardeis, struck under Iulia Domna, has for its reverse type an
infant Zeus seated on the ground with an eagle hovering above him {Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins
Lydia p. 261 pi. 27, 6 = supra i. 151 fig. 118). Zeus Sa/Jdftos brought the babe Dionysos
to Mt Tmolos (Orph. h. Sabaz. 48. 1 ff. k\v8l, irdrep, TZpbvov vli, 2a/3dfte, Kvbip,e 5a.ip.ov, \
6s Hclkxov Aibvvaov, epij3pop.ov, elpa<piuT7)v \ prjpip eyKaTepa\pas, oirus rereXecr/xe^os i\drj |
Tp.u)\ov is rjyddeov irapd 0'"Iwrav {Trap linrav codd.) naWiirapriov. So O. Kern in Geneth-
liakon Carl Robert zum 8. Marz 1910 tiberreicht von der Graeca Halensis Berlin 1910
p. 90 f. and in his Orphicorum Fragmenta Berolini 1922 p. 222 f., W. Quandt De Baccho
ab Alexandri aetate in Asia Minore culto Halis Saxonum 1913 p. 257 f.). See further
K. Buresch Klaros Leipzig 1889 p. 16 f., Gruppe Gr. Myth. Re/, p. 284 n. 11.
3 Tralleis {A'idin) occupied a high plateau on a southern spur of Mt Messogis. Its
akropolis (320™) overlooks the little river Eudonos, a tributary of the Maiandros (map by
C. Humann and W. Dorpfeld in the Ath. Mitth. 1893 xviii. 395 ff. pi. 12). The town was
said to have been founded by Argives and Thracians (Strab. 649 KTia'p.a oi (paaiv elvai rds
TpctXXets 'Apyeicov /cat tlvwv Qpq.Kuiv TpaXXtwp, dtp' tov rovvop.a, cp. Steph. Byz. s.v. TpaXXta
and Diod. 17.65). A bronze coin struck by M. Aurelius has for reverse type TPAAA6Y
C KTICCTHC {sic) Tralleus as a soldier, standing to left, with right hand outstretched
and left supported on spear (Imhoof-Blumer Gr. Miinzen p. 203 no. 642 b, Head Hist,
num? p. 661).
Larisa, a village higher up on the slopes of Messogis, thirty stades from Tralleis, gave
its name to Zeus Aaptcrtos (Strab. 440 (in a list of towns called Aaptcra) /cat tQv TpdXXewe
diexovaa Kup.r] Tpidnovra ffraSiovs virep rrjs iroKews iirl Kaiiarpov wediov otd r?js JileaajyiBos
iovruv Kara to tt)s 'lo~odp6p.r]s M'jjrpos lepov, bp.oLav ttjv 6£<tiv /cat tt}v apeTrjV 'ixov<ya TV
Kpep-aarfj Aaplari (so cod. A, with another cr added by the second hand. Xapio-ar] cett.
codd.)- /cat yap evvSpos /cat dp.irekb<pvTos- tcrws 5e /cat 6 Aaptcrtos (so cod. A, with another