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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

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130 The Tritopatores or Tritopatreis

Athens in the first century B.C. and better known to us as the 'Tower
of the Winds,' was an octagonal structure of white marble containing
a water-clock. The upper part of its exterior was decorated with
eight reliefs of the wind-gods, arranged in accordance with the
wind-rose of Eratosthenes1,—Boreas, Kaikias, Apeliotes, Euros,

Fig. 49.

Notos, Lips, Zephyros, Skiron. And the roof was crowned by the
bronze figure of a Triton, who swung round in the wind and pointed
with his rod to the appropriate deity2.

1 H. Steinmetz De ventdrum descriptiombus apud Graecos Romanosque Gottingae I9°7
pp. 42 ff., 80, id. 'Windgotter' in the Jahrb. d. kais. deutsch. arch. Inst. 19:0 xxv. 34

2 Vitr. 1. 6. 4, cp. Varr. rer. rust. 3. 5. 17.
 
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