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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lis master1. The elephant that occurs so frequently on the Indian
and Graeco-Indian coinages of the Kabul valley and north-western
India—I figure bronze pieces struck by Menandros c. 165 (?) B.C.
(fig- 366)2, Maues c. 72 B.C. (fig. 367)*, and Azes i c. 58 B.C. (fig. 368)*
""-must be identified with, or at least derived from5, this same
redoubtable beast, is in fact ultimately none other than the therio-
^orphic storm-god.

Fig. 366.

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Fig. 369.

wwernatis Zoological Mythology London 1872 ii. 92. fi ,66),

C j **■ Mus. Cat. CoiJGreek and Scythic Kings p. 5° P»- .2, 6 (-my ng 3

»' ^°Wn Tht Coins of India Calcutta 19M P- *° P>- 6jo , , fi„. ,67),

8. A'1' *«■ Cat. Coins Greek and Scythic Kings p. 68 pi. .6, « -ray fig. 3 /)
tf.'jV. in The Cambridge History of India Cambridge .9" P- 5*» l1
4 toxvn rA; Co»w of India Calcutta 1922 p. 28 pi. 3. 4- , 6gv

. J% Mus. CaL cL Greek and Scythic Kings p. 87 pi. I* 7 (-«¥ fiS- W
0 Professor Rapson &f. cit. p. 557-

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