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)

586 Ritual of the Dipolieia

the first blow1. It follows that he must be identified with the
Boupkdnos2; for he, as Pausanias informed us3, ^
was a priest who struck the ox with his axe.
It seems likely that Boutypos was a euphem-
istic equivalent of Bouphonos. The one meant 3HV\0]®I
'Ox-striker'; the other, 'Ox-slaughterer.' MIHEj^T
However that may be, we have inscriptional - q3
evidence of Boutypoi both early and late. A ^yp
narrow stele of white marble, found by j
R. Chandler built into a wall at Athens and
now preserved in the British Museum (fig. ■ • '-^^

409)4, mentions a Boutypos in connexion with |OTI
the Dipolieia5. To judge from its lettering, IO OjTYP
this important fragment must be dated as far y^u.-|0
back as the seventh century B.C.6 Fully eight -1 _ ^

hundred years later, in the decade 190—200 kl
A.D., one Lakrateides son of Eutychides the lOlj^OH
Azenian is thrice recorded as Boutypos priest J|l Pp"!

and Kosmetes or 'Marshal' of the Athenian r_ ^rH]!^'^
ephebop. The tenacity with which Athens PsiTlE'^
clung to its old-world rite—a rite already
antiquated in the time of Aristophanes8—is Flg' 4°9

indeed remarkable. Doubtless the Boutypos was an impresSlV

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1 Hesych. Boutvttos' 6 fiovv KarufioXkuv, L. Bachmann anecdota Graeca Lipsl .^5,
i. 181, 18 HovTiJiros' fiooBvrris. b roiis /36as ^dAAaw ireX^Kei, Souid. ~Bovtvttos' P

6 tovs /36as fidWwv irAu/a. Infra p. 587 n. 1. o[n the

2 J. Toepffer, indeed, op. cit. p. 159 attempted to distinguish the ~Bovt6ttos nl5e»
Bov06vos, regarding the former as a subordinate helper of the latter. But js
op. cit. p. 520 f. satisfactorily established the equation Bourt;7ros = BoixpSvos, ^ jn the
accepted alike by H. von Prott in the Rhein. Mils. 1897 lii. 197 n. 2, C R°^el
Gbtt. gel. Anz. 1899 c,xi- 526, and L. Deubner Attische Feste Berlin 1932 P- 1

3 Supra p. 577 n. 2. Muse"0

4 E. L. Hicks The Collection of Ancient Greek Inscriptions in the Brit'sl1 contents
Oxford 1874 i. 136 no. 74 with facsimile ( = my fig. 409). Hicks notes that the
appear to be a list of official requisites or perquisites. % 8

5 Corp. inscr. Gr. i no. 9, 8 ff., Corp. inscr. Ait. i"no. 531, 8 S. = i6. iv. 1 n°' r/>'s
Inscr. Gr. ed. min. i no. 839, 8 ff. Ka\i rot [/3]i[o]iw|« : xMIM" ::: A\Lir0^
x\olvi[ices] I [7r^r]e : fi\—].

6 It is a pov<TTpo<pri8bt> inscription, with ©; U, and + beside X. ^ ^■fitst1"'

7 Corp. inscr. Att. iii. 1 no. 52, 1 f., iii. 1 no. 1163, 2 f., iii. 1 no. n»4> \aKparelS°V
Gr. ed. min. ii—iii. 1 no. 2291 a, 1 f. [nocrp.i]]\Teiioi>Tos Lepdus [fiovJrviroiJ J\as/)«r'
Ei[Tux/5ou '^ftyi&is], idi no. 2128, 2 f. 6 Kovn-OTys tQv (<p^av Upevs POVTV^ypa,retf0'''
elSip EirvxlSov 'Aftyiuetfs, ib. no. 2129, 2 f. Kotr/xrjTeijovros leptus [^out]i)to[v

toC Ei)[tdxi]5o[u] 'Af[7/]c[l£|wS.

8 Aristoph. nub. 984 f.