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 as an ox; Zeus Olbios 623

with sundry modifications1 to have lasted on well into Roman

Fig. 421.

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t0ml) at^SS'ble Eur°pe—we can hardly rate the evidence higher—hails from the tkdlos-

411(1 c'ated l"ta' "ear Midea on the Argive Plain, excavated by A. W. Persson in 1926

** SoHdra V 1 a"d A' J" B- Wace c- '400—1350 B.C. (A. W. Persson The Royal Tombs

?etoPe-lik "ear Midea Lund '93' PP- 67, 143). Among its rich contents were eight

'En in replaqUeS °f glass P^'e- six Hght b,ue' tw0 violet in colour' but a11 bearin& a
e lef described as follows bv their discoverer: ' An animal with head borne