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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 holed vessel in Italy 441

the assumption that the mundus was a prehistoric tomb is found to
cover the whole spread of usages connected with it in historic days.
Nor have we far to look for a somewhat analogous case. Adjoining
.tne Palatine was the Capitol, and we have already seen that in the
Capitoline temple, side by side with Iupiter on his throne, stood an
ancient grave-stele or boundary-stone1, which was viewed as an
aPpanage of the sky-god and in art portrayed as a blue globe resting
°n a square plinth2—a mitndtts of the celestial sort. Roman writers
Cahed it the stone of Terminus 3. But such a stone, at its erection, had
the blood of a burnt sacrifice along with incense, corn, honeycombs,
^vine etc. placed in the hole prepared for it4. In other words, it was
^reated as the tombstone of a man and received the offerings normally
r°ught to the Manes5. Nor is the notion of an early tomb on the
aPitol beyond the pale of possibility. The story of Aulus' head dug
UP on that very spot is more than a mere piece of bad etymology6.
*n this connexion it is impossible to ignore that most impressive
au Roman temples, the Pantheon7. For its amazing dome, while

has borro

lowed this trait from the myth of Kyknos (Hes. sc. Her. 472 ff. Kixrov S'av K^uf
ff%t' 5 s aTretpuv, | ot p iyyvs valov 7r6\tas kKcltov /3atnX?)os | ... rod 5c rd<pov /cat

^fcoir,a.°€S v°^cv "Kvavpoi \ ip-jipu xei/xep/u trX-qduv rus yap p.iv 'AirdXKwv | A)JTof5iJS
b'anc Pa /C^CITI" inarS/tpas \ Scms dyoi IlvOoiSc fily avXao-Ke doneiuv). But the resem-
, etween the two stories is remote.

4 J^ra >• 53. 2 Supra i. 42 pi. vi. 3 Supra i. 53 n. 5.

'PSos -U ^laccus in the Grom. vet. i. 141 Lachmann cum enirfi terminos disponerent,
es in solidam terram rectos conlocabant proxime ea loca in quibus fossis
autem xuri e°s erant, et unguento velaminibusque et coronis eos coronabant. in fossis
adqUe ■ cocl- G.)] quibus eos posituri erant, sacrificio facto hostiaque inmolata

SUittem .Cen?a ^acibus ardentibus, in fossa cooperti ('an cooperta?' K. Lachmann) san-
v'num ^^'''^bant, eoque (eis qui cod. B.) tura et fruges iactabant. favos quoque et
adi(

ciebant C'U'^US con5Uetudo est Termini (terminis codd. B.G.) sacrum fieri, in fossis
a^ant nrl ' COnsumPt'st5ue igne omnibus dapibus super calentes reliquias lapides conloc-
^'libus ^. e a diligent! cura confirmabant. adiectis etiam quibusdam saxorum frag-
^nes di-i ?Uni ca^cabant, quo firmius starent. tale ergo sacrificium domini, inter quos

5 !b^' facieban"

b'Vra J; " th in Smith—Wayte—Marindin Diet, Ant. i. 893 f. See also E. Samter

c „ " l09°).
1 vupra if

^u Capita > •' 2<^° n° °" See now A. Blanchet ' Pierres gravees representant la legende
lacle ?e Rez'- Arch. 1925 ii. 248—256 figs. 1—6, and W. Deonna 'Orphce Jt

atlc'ent msj-a lete c°upee' in the Rev. At. Gr. 1925 xxxviii. 44—69 (many parallels

ia*'ngs bv P"r J! Po-i'theon (results of investigation in 1892 —1893, with plans and
x?p°g>-aphie j °- Ar«nanini) Milano 1898 pp. 1—75 pis. 1—5, H.Jordan—C. Htilsen
?He,sen pj™ Stad< R°m im Alterthum Berlin 1907 i. 3. 581—589, H. Kiepert et C.
J>lers The "4r,nrbiS Romae aniiquae* Berolini 1912 p. 29, W. J. Anderson—R. P.
// 4t f' and fi ltecture of Ancient Rome rev. by T. Ashby London 1927 pp. 77—82
^""c Oxfor<jlg" '9. S. B. Platner—T. Ashby A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient
rchitectu,-e q I9?9. 382—386, D. S. Robertson A Handbook of Greek & Roman
•abridge 1929 pp. 246—251 pi. 16 f. and fig. 104 f.
 
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