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

SSI

Hadrian to that of of Geta (figs. 374, 375)1 he is a youthful hunter
Under Gordianus Pius (fig. 3/6)2, though still youthful, he approxi-
mates more closely to the normal
aspect of Zeus ; for, while raising his
right hand, he holds a thunderbolt
°n his left arm and sometimes has an
eagle at his feet3 or else is crowned
by Nike standing on a column behind
him. On bronze pieces issued c. 250—
1 So B.C. (fig. 377)4 he appears as

a mature man half-draped in a

himdtion and uplifting a wreath. On

°ther bronze pieces struck in s. ii or

1 B'c- (fig- 378)5 a laureate head with

a bushy beard is aptly described by

Sir G. F. Hill as 1 Zeus, that is to say

^arnas.'6

The same god is represented on

a colossal scale by a figure found

"ear Gaza in 1879 and now in the

Imperial Museum at Constantinople

(% 379)'. In a sand-dune known as
fell ei Ajoul ^ HiH of the Cair) on

he left side of the Wadi Gazze,
"°«ie two hours to the south-west of

pza, Arab masons had dug up Kgfe^
Cet"tain Wen_cut blocks of stone and

for thCm hl the t0W"' ProsPecting Fig' 379'

0j- rn°re they discovered, lying on its back in a pit 2m deep, the floor

wbich showed remains of a mosaic pavement, the upper half of

1 $upr,

a ^ra P- 550.
"fit.

G. p Y.US' CaL Coins Palestine p. 168 pi. 17, 9 ( = my fig. 376 from a cast).
* P, jj' 1 So"le Palestinian Cults p. 17.
3?7) J.^aulcy Numismatique de la terre sainte Paris 1874 p. 211 pi. 11, 1 ( = my
28J pi 1* " ' Mus- Cat- Coins Palestine pp. lxxi, 143 pi. 15, 3, Hunter Cat. Coins iii.

a Cast). ' Alus' Cat- Coins Palestine pp. Ixx f., J43 pi. 15, 1 and 2 ( = my fig. 378 from
6 Sir G

' ^ende/V1'" the Brit- Mus- Cat. Coins Palestine p. lxxi.

^Urad i SculPl- Constantinople \\. 352 ff. no. 611 fig. ( = my fig. 379). See also
A?itorial con" Arch' Zdt% l8?9 xxxv»- 198 ('ohne Zweifel Jupiter,' but with the
C* Quart"?* 'vermulhIich Serapis'), C. R. C[onder] in the Palestine Exploration
c°graphy ^lenient for 1S82 London p. 147 f. fig., G. A. Smith The Historical

2382' Keinach If ^"^ Land l894 P- «88. W. Drexler in Roscher Lex. Myth. ii.

R{P- Stat. ii. ,+ no. 6.