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)

580 Ritual of the Dipolieia

the barley and wheat were set out eirl tt/s xa^KVs Tpairifrs (Porph. de abst. 2. 30), while
the ox was slain errl rod ^a/xov (Paus. r. 28. 10). Zeus Ho\ie6s, in short, like ^elIS
Avkcuos (Paus. 8. 30. 2), had both kinds of altar, doubtless close together—perhaps even
in actual contiguity (cp. the Tpd-rrefa + fioj/j.6s of Dionysos on a volnte-amp/wra from Ruv0'
now at Naples (Heydemann Vasensamml. Neapel p. 282 ff. no. 2411, O. Jahn in the-d?"1'
d. Inst, i860 xxxii. 5 ff., Mon. d. Inst, vi pis. 37 and 38 = Reinach Rip. Vases i. r54>
1 and 2, E. Saglio in Daremberg—Saglio Diet. Ant. i. 349 fig. 417. My fig- 4°+
an extract from Jahn's pi. 37, illustrating the juxtaposition of the cult-statue with t>o^
types of altar)). On this showing the statement that the cereals were placed T0
fiw/j-ov (Paus. 1. 24. 4) is inexact.

I take this opportunity of publishing (fig. 405) a votive table in terra cotta, found H1
the Kabeirion near Thebes and now in my collection. Oblong top, 4f x 2$ inches! 'e^S

Fig. 405. ^

(one restored), inches high. The clay is covered with a white slip, which s'l£>W tre i5
traces of paint: the table itself was yellow, the offerings on it were red. In t'ie J - 346
a phidle omphalotos. In each corner is a cake (or cup ?—itaards, ixturrlov sup ^ of
n. o) shaped like a female breast with central nipple. Smaller circular cakes, ^t
which may be meant for fruit, are scattered about. And there are two sllceSj[eis see
(eels?). For Egyptian, Assyrian, Syro-Phoenician, Persian, and Hitttte p»*. ^gclie')
K. Galling Der Altar in den Kulturen des alten Orients Berlin 1924 p. 9 ^ ('"' 'Q f, ('I"e
pi. 2 figs. 14—17, p- 49 f. ('Der lowenftissige Altartisch') pi. 10 fig- 24> 1'T;sci1aUSre:
privaten Altartische') pi. 10 fig. 25, a—p, pp. 64 f. (' Der Tischaltar'), 77 ( 1 c^ettisc^
1-26'), p. 83 ff. ('Der Tischaltar') pi. 15 figs. 9—15, 16—19, p- 92 ff' C^f conceivf
Tischaltar') pi. 15 figs. 8, n, pi. 16 fig. 12. Recently W. Deonna in a AesAJ 0i.
and admirably illustrated article ('Mobilier Delien' in the Bull. Corr. -"f^ eSx&eS
1—90 with 61 figs.) has traced the whole evolution of 'la table d'offrandes ^ ^ tbe^
pagan beginnings up to latest Christian usage. His series includes food set ou ^ . fre
soil or mound or rock; the platter; the platter with low feet; the platter \ _ etc,
table; the table with rings or hollows; the table with vases and viands in 1