Cook, Arthur B.: Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 3,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (earthquake, clouds, wind, dew, rain, meteorits): Text and notes (Cambridge, 1940)

The Tritopatores or Tritopatreis 115

Whether the Zakyadai, whose name does not occur elsewhere,
formed a genos or a phratria, has been disputed1. But it is clear
that the addition of the last word was meant to limit the circle of
worshippers to members of a specified tribal division, bound together
Dy real or fictitious community of descent.

The sacrificial calendar from Kottkounari in the Epakria district,
which again belongs to the earlier part of s. iv B.C.2, mentions among
the annual rites of Marathon that in Skirophorion before the Skira
a sheep was offered to the Tritopatreis and another to the
Akamantes3, also among the trieteric rites of the same place that
at the same time of year a table was set for the Tritopatreis4. The

T^AMA.hf TI-^O^IAPaNtI KAIArrJ-^IKAlgABAA-o\
/pAAHAPAHOPnpaBATl/H lTTLT/T.APX A PETAK A /
TPiTOp ATCP-aNKAJAPOQUN YMA^TflTA AEA+n f
APAAAA°P HaH o ph.po ^EKA/AEoYK oi. rAArN-O-J
Jj^N^EIaP-ANo^IAPANt! \

Fig. 38.

context in both cases is suggestive of fertility and fertilisation.
P. Maas5 claims that the Tritopateres are again connected with
the Akamantes in an important ritual text of s. iv B.C. found at
Kyrene and first published by S. Ferri in 1927 (fig. 38)6; and

inter. Alt. ii. 2 no. 1062 = Michel Rccueil <f Inscr. gr. no. 741 = Dittenberger Syll. inscr.
no. 443 = z#. ib.3 no. 925 opos ie\po IpiTt^irarptuv \ Zo.kvo.5w[v].

1 J. Topffer AttiscAc GenealogieHexiin 1889 p. 3>3says: ' Die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass
'etztere ein ytvos waren, ist meiner Meinung nach mindestens ebenso gross, wie die, dass
s'e eine Phratrie bildeten.' G. Lippold in the AtA. MittA. 1911 xxxvi. 106 n. 1 decides
for a y{vo% on the ground that the HvppaKidai (infra p. 118) certainly were such. On the
other hand, U. Kohler locc. citt., U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff Aristotelcs und AtAen
Berlin 1893 ii. 268 n. ir, W. Larfeld HandbucA dergriecAiscAen EpigrapAik Leipzig 1898

t, 187 (' wohl einer Phratrie'), and W. Dittenberger locc. citt. prefer to assume a (pparpla.

2 R. B. Richardson in the Am. Journ. ArcA. 1895 x. 220 f.

3 J. de Prott Leges Graecorum sacrae Lipsiae 1896 Fasti sacri p. 46 ff. no. 26 B,
30 ff. ^Kipotpopiuivos' Trpo ^.Ktpwv 'Ttttivlwl to. wpa[t]\a ols AhK Koporpdcptot x°'P0S

Upioavva hH- I TpiTOTrarpevai ols, iepJicvva p"K 'A-Kafiaaiv \ oh AhK lepilxrvva

hh.

4 Id. ib. p. 46ff. no. 26B, 51 ff. 1.Kipo<popiC>vos- irpb Scf/wr* ra\(wi Kpibs A^hh,] |
ttpwavva. hh» <pp£o-Tos PH- TpLTOirarpevat \ Tpd-nefa (-•

6 P. Maas in the DeutscAe Literaturzeitung 1927 xlviii. 1953 f'AKa/xavTluv von Heilig-
Wraeni der 'A/ayuures?').

6 Reading and rendering are alike in dispute. S. Ferri 'La "Lex Cathartica" di
Cirene' in the Noliziario ArcAeologico 1927 iv. 91—145 with pis. 14—17 and a facsimile
(part of which = my fig. 38) § 4, 21 ff. [of] ko. imvtIwv boio. iravri nal iyvat Kai /3a/3a\<«>[i ■] |
*\b.v air' avOpwiru Barr[w] tw tw 'Apxayira «ro[i] | TpiTowarepoiv KaX awb 'OvvpnaTw tw

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