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1222 Addenda
ii. 693 n. 4. See now an interesting study by W. R. Halliday ' Picus-who-is-also-
Zeus ' in the Class. Rev. 1922 xxxvi. 110—112.
ii. 716. F.J. M. DeWaele 'XPYIAHP' in Le Musee Beige 1924 xxviii No. 1
(January) holds that dop in this compound retains its original sense, ' arrow.' See Class.
Rev. 1924 xxxviii. 92.
ii. 725 figs. 660, 661. A. della Seta Italia antica Bergamo 1922 p. 252 fig. 281 shows
this statue as it stands in the Galleria dei Candelabri of the Vatican, with a bow restored
in its right hand and an eagle in its left !
ii. 739. On statuettes of Zeus the thunderer see now S. Casson in the Jonrri. Hell.
Stud. 1922 xlii. 211 f. figs. 4—6. He claims that a crude example of the type from Dodona
(C. Carapanos Dodone et ses mines Paris 1878 p. 32 no. 16 pi. 13, 4, S. Casson he. eit.
p. 211 f. fig. 4 (/))=my fig. 1017) is 'of the Geometric period.' If so, this would be the
earliest known representation of Zeus in the round. Unfortunately it is not quite certain
that Zeus was intended. The subject may be a fighting man, not a thundering god. The
holes in his hands would suit spear and shield at least as well as they would suit thunder-
bolt and eagle. The absence of a helmet, however, tells in favour of Zeus.
ii. 741 f. K. A. Rhomaios in the 'Apx- AeXr. 1920—21 vi. 169—171 figs. 3—6 (of
which figs. 5 and 6 = my figs. 1018 and 1019) publishes an archaic bronze statuette of
Zeus, found in a wonderful state of preservation at Ambrakia in Aitolia and now installed
in the National Museum at Athens (no. 14984. Height o-i65m; with base, o-i88m.
Patina, blackish green). The god advances brandishing a bolt in his raised right hand and
supporting an eagle on his outstretched left. Yet the action of his legs and arms is by no
means strenuous. It agrees rather with the pose of Hageladas' Zeus on the coins of
Messene (ii. 742 fig. 673 f.). Accordingly Rhomaios regards the new statuette as made
under the influence of Hageladas' work, which he dates c. 480 B.C. (cp. C Robert
Archaeologische Maerchen aus alter und netier Zeit Berlin 1886 p. 92 ff. and Collignon
Hut. de la Sculpt, gr. i. 318). But that is definitely to reject the testimony of Paus. 4.
33. 2 (see Sir J. G. Frazer and H. Hitzig—H. Bliimner ad he.). It is safer to conclude
that the new statuette was an early faithful copy {c. 480 B.C.), Hageladas' masterpiece a
later improved copy (c. 455 B.C.), of the same cult-statue on Mt Ithome, which itself was
a modification of the ancient strenuous type (e. 490 B.C.). We thus obtain the stemma:
Fig. T017.
Fig. 1020.
Strenuous type (e. 490)
fig. 669
Aristonous' Zeus at Olympia
figs. 670, 671
Cult-statue on Mt Ithome (e. 480)
New statuette (c. 480)
figs. 1018, 1019
fig. 672
Hageladas' Zeus Ithomdlas (e. 455)
%s. 673, 674
ii. 693 n. 4. See now an interesting study by W. R. Halliday ' Picus-who-is-also-
Zeus ' in the Class. Rev. 1922 xxxvi. 110—112.
ii. 716. F.J. M. DeWaele 'XPYIAHP' in Le Musee Beige 1924 xxviii No. 1
(January) holds that dop in this compound retains its original sense, ' arrow.' See Class.
Rev. 1924 xxxviii. 92.
ii. 725 figs. 660, 661. A. della Seta Italia antica Bergamo 1922 p. 252 fig. 281 shows
this statue as it stands in the Galleria dei Candelabri of the Vatican, with a bow restored
in its right hand and an eagle in its left !
ii. 739. On statuettes of Zeus the thunderer see now S. Casson in the Jonrri. Hell.
Stud. 1922 xlii. 211 f. figs. 4—6. He claims that a crude example of the type from Dodona
(C. Carapanos Dodone et ses mines Paris 1878 p. 32 no. 16 pi. 13, 4, S. Casson he. eit.
p. 211 f. fig. 4 (/))=my fig. 1017) is 'of the Geometric period.' If so, this would be the
earliest known representation of Zeus in the round. Unfortunately it is not quite certain
that Zeus was intended. The subject may be a fighting man, not a thundering god. The
holes in his hands would suit spear and shield at least as well as they would suit thunder-
bolt and eagle. The absence of a helmet, however, tells in favour of Zeus.
ii. 741 f. K. A. Rhomaios in the 'Apx- AeXr. 1920—21 vi. 169—171 figs. 3—6 (of
which figs. 5 and 6 = my figs. 1018 and 1019) publishes an archaic bronze statuette of
Zeus, found in a wonderful state of preservation at Ambrakia in Aitolia and now installed
in the National Museum at Athens (no. 14984. Height o-i65m; with base, o-i88m.
Patina, blackish green). The god advances brandishing a bolt in his raised right hand and
supporting an eagle on his outstretched left. Yet the action of his legs and arms is by no
means strenuous. It agrees rather with the pose of Hageladas' Zeus on the coins of
Messene (ii. 742 fig. 673 f.). Accordingly Rhomaios regards the new statuette as made
under the influence of Hageladas' work, which he dates c. 480 B.C. (cp. C Robert
Archaeologische Maerchen aus alter und netier Zeit Berlin 1886 p. 92 ff. and Collignon
Hut. de la Sculpt, gr. i. 318). But that is definitely to reject the testimony of Paus. 4.
33. 2 (see Sir J. G. Frazer and H. Hitzig—H. Bliimner ad he.). It is safer to conclude
that the new statuette was an early faithful copy {c. 480 B.C.), Hageladas' masterpiece a
later improved copy (c. 455 B.C.), of the same cult-statue on Mt Ithome, which itself was
a modification of the ancient strenuous type (e. 490 B.C.). We thus obtain the stemma:
Fig. T017.
Fig. 1020.
Strenuous type (e. 490)
fig. 669
Aristonous' Zeus at Olympia
figs. 670, 671
Cult-statue on Mt Ithome (e. 480)
New statuette (c. 480)
figs. 1018, 1019
fig. 672
Hageladas' Zeus Ithomdlas (e. 455)
%s. 673, 674