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 Eleusinian formula hye kye occurs in an extended version
°n trie inner surface of three curved terra-cotta blocks, which together
made up a well-mouth outside the Dipylon gate at Athens1. This

■Ancient Pottery London 1905 i. 476 f. fig. 106, ii. 158) substitutes a small crop of wheat.

P- an Apulian hydria in the British Museum {Brit. Mus. Cat. Vases iv. 175 no. f 353) on
lcn the herSion contains a large acanthus-plant in lieu of a stele, and an Apulian kratir
rnerly in the Coghill collection (J. Millingen Peintures antiques de vases grecs de la
p °n de Sir ?0,1,1 Coghill Bart Rome 1817 p. 42 f. pis. 49 and 51, 2, Reinach Rip.

aseJ ii. xf, 1 and 18, 2) on which the heroion has within it nothing but a bay-branch.

, . n a grave near Syracuse was found (c. 1900) a veritable triumph of the goldsmith's art,
It h am ak'e ^ere t0 re'Pu^'isri (pl- xxxi)> thanks to the kind offices of Dr A. H. Lloyd,
^^as already been figured by S. P. Noe The Coinage of Metapontum {Numismatic
'D' J a'"^ Ponographs No. 32) New York 1927 p. 9 and, more adequately, by P. Wolters
ifi'e ^°^enen Ahren' in the Festschriftfiir James Loeb Miinchen 1930pp. m—129 pi.
'Pand figs. x-xt,id. 'Gestalt und Sinn der Ahre in antiker Kunst' in Die Antike 1930
jg^2^f 3°i pi. 1 and figs. 1 —10, who refers it to the fourth or third century B.C. The
6ti !tse'I> now in the Loeb Collection at Murnau, consists of three superb ears growing
sind S'n^e sta'k- Wolters, accepting the opinion of Prof. G. Centner, says: 'Dargestellt
turn 'zenanren> wahrscheinlich die des Binkel- oder Igel-Weizens, Triticum compac-
^gj." ' *^Sen Tags werden noch verschiedene Varietaten in Sizilien gebaut. Moglich
] 6 a"ercungs auch, dass ein besonders kurzahriger Hartweizen vorliige, von dem
ist sacn''cn die Varietat Triticum durum affine, ebenfalls in Sizilien gebaut wird; sie
gj2.^.erniut'ich identisch mit dem vvpis Tpifi-qvaios Theophrasts und heisst im heutigen
j 'en Timilia oder Tremilia.' Sir R. H. Biffen, however, has informed me (Jan. 14,
ears are barley, not bearded wheat, and certainly not a cross

, en the two. He notes that some details in the arrangement of the shields at the
ase of tli

coins Ear are not true '° nature- ^-n(^ ne adds ''lat tne ears rePresented on Greek
Met reSuIai"ly> not wheat, but barley (e.g. the hordeitm hexastichon on coins of
un/p>ntnm (F- Imhoof-Blumer and O. Keller Tier- und Pflanzenbilder auf Munzcn
Pi. 9 ""'"en des klassischen Altertums Leipzig 1889 p. 54 pi. 9, 1, p. 56 pi. 9, 24, p. 58
Met ' • *n case we are at °nce reminded of the 'golden harvest' sent by the
Xpuo-o 'meS t0 ^>e'Pn°i (Strab. 264 oOs oiirus d?r6 yeupytas iiTvxnaal tpaaiv ware dtpos
vpv„ . e" AeX0ois avaduvai). This, though very different in intention, must have been
in technique.

narraUv ^' 'S n0t' * tnink, irrelevant to compare a well-known incident in the Gospel
to Phir6' ^^en certa-in Greeks, proselytes of the gate attending a Jewish festival, came
'""KetheT °^ ^etnsa'da saying 'Sir, we would see Jesus,' Philip sought out Andrew and
Son f1 t0'^ Jesus- Thereupon Jesus made answer: 'The hour is come, that

Wneat fan snou'^ De glorified. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a grain of

fruit> (Joh"lt0 t'le eartn and die' abideth by itself alone; but if it die, it beareth much
SuPrerne "° ^ ^aster nere hints at his own impending Passion as the

certain ^CamFle of the Iaw that Life must be reached through Death. That much is
readers ' • V'£W °^ *e ^act tbat tne I'ourtn Gospel was written primarily for Greek
""essays Is farther probable that these profound words were meant to convey some
symboHSmPeC'alIy aPProPriate to the Greeks. And, if so, it is at least possible that the
mystic» r £mPloyed aimed at recalling the great lesson taught by the hierophant to the
* °t Lleusis.
Ft

3o' in Ttnormant Sonographic de la Vote Sacrle Eleusinienne Paris 1864 p. 85 ff. no.
^er>)> P paremberg—Saglio Did. Ant. ii. 573, E. Pottier ii. n. 682 (first recognition of
ScriPt'ion' ^nzet in the BulL Corr. Hell. 1896 xx. 78 ff. no. 2 (with facsimile of (he in-
ottl-8o; ^ 1 de criaoiue brique, om-42 ; ep., o'"-04; diametre probable du puits,
lettres',„' eS lettres> de o"'-0j a om,07. Sur le bord superieur de chaque brique, deux
laPProcWes*X'\.

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