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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 Arrhephoroi 175

(T. L. Donaldson Architecture numismatica London 1859 p. fig- 3*> Babelon

Monn. rip. rom. i. 375 f. fig., M. Bahrfeldt Nachtrdge und Berichtigungen zur Miinzkunde
Wien 1897 p. 87, Brit. Mus. Cat. Rom. Coins Rep. i. 473 nos. 3830 pi. 47, 21, 3831, 3832,
H. Mattingly Roman Coins London 1928 p. 86 pi. 21, 17, Bement Sale Catalogue 1924
iii. 9 no. 126 pi. 5 (=my fig. 86)). Fig. 87 is from a specimen of mine. For the extant
remains of ring-walls and temple-platform see C. Hulsen in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. vi
604 and especially J. Kromayer 'Eryx' in Klio 1909 ix. 461—477 with map and figs. 1—4.

2 This striking expression occurs in the remarkable account of Aphrodite's precinct
included by Ail. de not. an. 10. 50 ava irav Ztos Kal rjpL^pav Trdaav dvovai rrj Kal oi
eiriX<bpiOL Kal oi £6>oi. Kal 6 y.h /3w/tds inrb Tif obpavy 0 ntyiaTbs itrri, -rroWCiv U in airou
Ka-dayi'Conivwv 8vfi&Twv 5 Si Travrnxipioi Kal it vvKTa i^dtrTeTai.. ias di ij7roAd/«rei, Kal Ixeivos
ouk avBpaKidv, ov (riroSw, oi% i]^KavTWv rpO^ij 5a\u>v iiiroipalvei, Spbaov de cbcwrXews fern
Kal 7r6as veapds, ijirep ovv avatpverai Serai vvKres. to. ye mV iepeia tVaffTijs dye\i]S aurdnara
"W? Kal rep /3u,u£ irapiarriKcv, ayei 5e apa avra tt/iutt) fiev Tj Beds, elra -q 56i>a/ih re Kal r\
Kovtos (3oi)\7)(ris. k.t.X. We gather that every morning the open-air altar of the
less, despite the numerous burnt-offerings of the previous day, was found—or was

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Fig. 86.

Fig. 87

Fig. 88.

said to be found—overgrown with dewy verdure. Anent this miracle E. Ciaceri Culti e
»'iti nella storia dell' antica Sicilia Catania 1911 p. 87 notes the beneficent mfluence of
dew on Sicilian vegetation and adds: 'Nella divina rugiada si vedeva la protezione della
dea; ed e forse degno di rilievo che sino ai nostri giorni nel popolo di Trapam si e serbata
fede alia breraa notturna; onde si e creduto ch' essa scenda come benediz.one del cie o
sugli abiti e vestiti che si espongano all' aria aperta durante la notteO (<>> r 11 r e Bibbot. delle
trad. pop. sic. XII (Palermo 1881) p. 261).' , , rll

That Aphrodite 'EpvKbr, (Inscr. Gr. Sic. It. no. 281 Eryx [Kdriir.uos Apterwo[f]|
t'A]0po8;Tal 'Bp(w)itfr[««], D>od. 4. 83, Steph. Byz. s.v. "Ep^, cp. Paus. 8. 14. 6 and
Strab. 272. For Venus Erycina see Dessau Inscr. Lot. sel. nos. 939. 3^3—3165, De \ it
Onomasticon ii. 756, Carter Epith. dear. p. ioi, O. Jessen in Pauly-Wissowa Real-Enc.
V1- 562 ff.) was in some sense a goddess of vegetation appears also from the fact that on
Utrai of c. 413- 400 B.C. she is seated with a dove on her hand and a tree behind her
{Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Sicily p. 62 f. nos. icf. and 12, G. F. Hill Coins of Ancient S.cy
London 1903 p. I36 pi. Q, I0 ( = my fig. 88), Hunter Cat. Coins i. 181 pi. 13. 8, Weber
Cat. Coins i. a7jj nos. M10 L ;o> 1. 5o, .3.3 P>- 5° ( = my fig. 89), McClean Cat

Coins i. 263 no. 2234 pi. 72, 7, Head Hist, num.- p. 138)- Note too the frequency of floral
ornaments, volutes, etc. on the various Utrai (e.g. figs. 85, 9")- The plant Xi.XWs, 'rose-
campion,' which flourished on Mt Eryx, was said to have sprung from the bath ot
Aphrodite after sleeping with Hephaistos (Amerias p^orofUKby ap. Athen. 681 F: on
Amerias see O. Hoffmann Die Maiedonen, ihre Sprache und ihr Volkstum Gottingen
•9o6 p. 2 ff.).

The dove had a special significance in this cult and was in all probability viewed as an
 
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