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Zeus Ombrios
palm. A handsome tetradrachm of Attic weight issued by
Antialkidas has room for greater detail (fig. 364)1. On the obverse
is the royal bust within a fillet-border. On the reverse, surrounded
by a Greek legend, a radiate Zeus clad in chiton and himdtion sits
on a decorative throne holding a long sceptre in his left hand and
a Nike with wreath and palm in his right. In front of him appears
the forepart of an elephant, which wears a bell round its neck and
uplifts its trunk in salutation. A rare tetradrachm of the same
ruler, struck on the Indian standard with bilingual legend, shows
his head-
Fig. 365.
Zeus parading with his elephant, which carries Nike on
wears a bell on his neck, and again raises his trunk at the s
(fig. 365)2. It will be remembered that Indra's famous elep ^
Airavata or Airavana3, played a prominent part in the ba
1 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Greek and Scythic Kings p. 25 pi. 7, 9 (=my fig' 3j^m the
E. W. Hopkins The Religions of India Boston etc. 1895 p. 431 f- qUOtfthe WIlite
Book of Peace, a late addition to the Maha-Bharata, the famous episode ot gecond,
Island (12. 337. 20 ff.): 'Three priests with the insigniScant names "tirst, i(gea0f
Third,"3 [3Ekata, Dvita, Trita] go to the far North (die tittara) where, in *e s£,ven
Milk," they find an Albion called "White Island," perhaps regarded as one ol ^ ^ the
or thirteen "islands," of which earth consists; and there Vishnu is worshipP
one god by white men of extraordinary physical characteristics.' j fig"
2 R. E. Whitehead in the Num. Chron. Fifth Series 1923 iii. 325 f- P1, 15\S'Qata^
a specimen of mine, formerly in the White King collection (White King^£crf'
Amsterdam 1904 pi. r, 50). Obv. BAZIAEHS NIKH*oPoY ANTIAA
Rev. Maharajasa jayadharasa Amtialikidasa. 34.
3 M. Winlernitz A concise Dictionary of Eastern Religion Oxford l9l°\^\ J3int'ef
Dr Vollmer's Wbrterbuch der Mythologie aller Volker. Neu bearbeitet von 1
Stuttgart 1874 p. 23 s.v. 'Airaput.'
Zeus Ombrios
palm. A handsome tetradrachm of Attic weight issued by
Antialkidas has room for greater detail (fig. 364)1. On the obverse
is the royal bust within a fillet-border. On the reverse, surrounded
by a Greek legend, a radiate Zeus clad in chiton and himdtion sits
on a decorative throne holding a long sceptre in his left hand and
a Nike with wreath and palm in his right. In front of him appears
the forepart of an elephant, which wears a bell round its neck and
uplifts its trunk in salutation. A rare tetradrachm of the same
ruler, struck on the Indian standard with bilingual legend, shows
his head-
Fig. 365.
Zeus parading with his elephant, which carries Nike on
wears a bell on his neck, and again raises his trunk at the s
(fig. 365)2. It will be remembered that Indra's famous elep ^
Airavata or Airavana3, played a prominent part in the ba
1 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Greek and Scythic Kings p. 25 pi. 7, 9 (=my fig' 3j^m the
E. W. Hopkins The Religions of India Boston etc. 1895 p. 431 f- qUOtfthe WIlite
Book of Peace, a late addition to the Maha-Bharata, the famous episode ot gecond,
Island (12. 337. 20 ff.): 'Three priests with the insigniScant names "tirst, i(gea0f
Third,"3 [3Ekata, Dvita, Trita] go to the far North (die tittara) where, in *e s£,ven
Milk," they find an Albion called "White Island," perhaps regarded as one ol ^ ^ the
or thirteen "islands," of which earth consists; and there Vishnu is worshipP
one god by white men of extraordinary physical characteristics.' j fig"
2 R. E. Whitehead in the Num. Chron. Fifth Series 1923 iii. 325 f- P1, 15\S'Qata^
a specimen of mine, formerly in the White King collection (White King^£crf'
Amsterdam 1904 pi. r, 50). Obv. BAZIAEHS NIKH*oPoY ANTIAA
Rev. Maharajasa jayadharasa Amtialikidasa. 34.
3 M. Winlernitz A concise Dictionary of Eastern Religion Oxford l9l°\^\ J3int'ef
Dr Vollmer's Wbrterbuch der Mythologie aller Volker. Neu bearbeitet von 1
Stuttgart 1874 p. 23 s.v. 'Airaput.'