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

Quasi-Greek in effect is a unique tetradrachm of Amyntas
(c. 100—50 B.C.), which shows on one side a helmeted bust of the
king wearing the aigis and thrusting ajance, on the other a radiate
Zeus clad in chiton and kimdtion, who sits on a decorative throne
with a long sceptre and a palm-branch in his left hand and Athena
(not Nike) in his right (fig. 369) \

Finally tetradrachms of Hermaios (figs. 370, 371)2, successor of
Amyntas and last Yavana prince of the house of Eukratides, fr°m

Fig. 372.

1 R. B. Whitehead in the Num. Chron. Fifth Series 1923 iii. 332 P1". l3'oUt tb3'
fig. 369 is from casts kindly sent to me by Mr Whitehead, who loc. cit. poi11'^ j£jngs
even on the drachms of Amyntas (e.g. Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Greek and Scy ^.ceptiona'
p. 61 pi. 14, 10) the tiny figure carried by Zeus is not the usual Nike, but the e-
Athena. , (^

2 Brit. Mus. Cat. Corns Greek and Scythic Kings p. 62 f. pi. 15. J> 2' Tfhe

fig. 370 from an electrotype), cp. ib. p. 62 ff. pi. 15, 3, 5 ; 6, 7, Head Coins 0] j_ ifi

p. 109 pi. 62, 21, R. B. Whitehead in the Num. Chron. Fifth Series 1923 339

9—11. My fig. 371 is from casts of no. 10 given me by Mr Whitehead. b**^ •<:

Square bronze pieces issued by Spalirises have obv. the king standing wl ^ gcytfl
and bow, rev. the same type of Zeus enthroned (Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Gree c « » £ft)N
Kings p. 101 pi. 22, 2. I figure a specimen in the Fitzwilliam collection). ^ tyistsS,i

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