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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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The Tritopatores or Tritopatreis 133

about the same time but used for a Christian burial perhaps two
centuries later (fig. 53)1.

The significance of this marine
cortege has been differently conceived
by different critics. F. Buonarroti2 in
1698 held that graceful Oceanic figures
Were believed to escort deserving souls
to the Islands of the Blest. His view,
accepted by archaeologists of the
eighteenth century, was extended by
E. Q. Visconti3, who remarked that
sea-processions of the sort were
suggestive of a Bacchic tlriasos.
E- Petersen4 caught at the notion and
regarded the riot of sea-creatures as
a'i attempt to symbolise the joyous
revels of pious souls on entering the
Otherworld. He observed that the

Movement of such groups is centri- $
Petal, not processional, and conse-
quently abandoned the idea of an
escort to the Islands of the Blest. He
bailed, however, adequately to explain
why ordinary mortals should thus
suffer a sea-change. Neither Ino5 nor
Enalos6 is typical of commonplace
humanity. W. H. Roscher7 suspected
that the clue lay in the Samothracian
Mysteries. Sundry myths of the

1 C. L. V(isconti) ' Sarcofago con rappre-
Sentanza di Nereidi e Tritoni' in the Bull. Comm.
^rch. Comttn. di Roma 1873 i. 192—200 pi. 4
A * my fig, 53) Found near the western side of the

r6e square porlicus to the right of the Basilica of
• Lorenzo at Rome. Height o-65m. Length riom.
^he acclamation PROMOTE [ HABEAS (for
r°*note, aveas) is followed by a Latin cross with spread ends.

2 F- Buonarroti Osservazioni istoriche sopra alcuni medaglioni antichi air Altezza
Sere>tissima di Cosimo III, gran duca di Toscana Roma 1698 pp. 44, 114-

Visconti Mus. Pie-Clim. iv. 240 ff. pi. 33.
E. Petersen in the Ann. d. Inst, i860 xxxii. 396 ff.
5 pind. 01. 2. 28 IT., cp. supra i. 674. 6 Supra i. 170.

,.? W. H. Roscher in the Berl. philol. Woch. Juli 8, 1893 p. 886 f., id. in the
Uerarisches Zentralblatt fitr Deutschland 1893 p. 10:4 f.
 
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