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)

Zeus Ombrios

54i

(%• 351)1 and those struck in India with a bilingual legend2 and
a slightly orientalised type. The latter coins have for obverse
design the king's bust3, wearing sometimes a helmet marked with
the head and wing of Medousa4, sometimes a helmet with the horn
and ear of a bull and an aigis over the left shoulder (fig. 3S2)5.
Tetradrachms of the Indo-Scythian Azes are marked by pro-
gressive decadence (fig. 353)6. On the one side is the king on

F;g- 353-

1 Br'/

^ead fj- Cat. Coins Greek and Scythic Kings p. 21 pl. 7, 2 ( = my fig. 351)1

Cambrid"'- p. 839 fig. 370, G. Macdonald in The Cambridge History of India

Cat, c -ge 1922 i- pi. 4, 8 tetradrachm of Attic weight. On the drachm (Brit. Mus.

2 q! "/oc- cit- pi- 7, 3) the head of Zeus is radiate.

^'yasa AEnS AIKAIOY Hh\OK\EOs<'L = Maharajasa dhramikasa Heliya-
J3yif 71,*

^ight <. ■ ' Cat' c°>"s Greek and Scythic Kings p. 23 pi. 7, 5 statir of Indian

6 Id. 7", hltehead in the Num. Chron. Fifth Series 1923 iii. 321 f. pl. 14. 9-

^"^-ograth '^''Mohammedan Coinage of Northwestern India [Numismatic Notes and

Chron Fiftv, e I3' NewYork 1922 pl. 6, 2 ( = my fig. 352 from a cast), id. in the Num.

„ 'a* aSeri«1^3iii. 3»pL 14.1a

aloSue0ft) Coi"S Greek and Scythic Kings P- 73 P1, '7' 9' V' A" Smith

e CV>i«j /„ ^ Indian Museum, Calcutta Oxford 1906 i. 43 no. 3. 1 figure