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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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Zeus Ombrios 543

No less dignified is the Zeus who appears on a silver coin of
Peukolaos, another king in the upper Kabul valley. The god
stands erect holding a long sceptre in his left hand and making
a gesture with his outstretched right (fig. 3 58)1. The type recurs
on a few rare tetradrachms of the Indo-Scythians Maues (fig. 3S9)2
and Azes (fig. 360)3.

A fresh and somewhat perplexing aspect of Zeus is found
about 150 B.C. on tetradrachms of two contemporary and perhaps

Fig. 360.

right h' B" ^Vllitelleacl in the Num. Chron. Fifth Series 1923 iii. 334! pi. 15, 4 ('The
or coiy1lnC' ma^ w'tn outstretched ringer and thumb be making a gesture of benediction
or a atld- But I appear to see in the hand a small object in the shape of horns
E. j, ^"nt-.-not a lotus'), Head Coins of the Greeks p. 81 pi. 45, 22 ( = my fig. 358).
associaU0PS°n U1 TllC Ca"'brid5e History of India Cambridge 1922 i. 558 observes : 'The
adject" ^ Peuco,aus with Tushkalavati is proclaimed by his name, which is simply
2 y AVe.°^ ^euco'ait's, an alternative form of the Greek Peucelaotis.'
i- 39 n^ " Sm'th Catalogue of the Coins in the Indian Museum, Calcutta Oxford 1906
^UseUm" ' 1 fi8ure a specimen from the Tremlett collection, now in the Fitzwilliam
> g "

^' B- Whhft*1' °at' Coins Greek and Scythic Kings p. 73 pi. 17. 8 ('r. hand advanced'),
Wretch'j1 'n the Num- Chron. Fifth Series 1923 iii. 340 ('thin, curved object in
eQr- hand') Pl. I7> 12( = myfig. 360).
 
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