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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 as an ox; Zeus Olbios

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coast at Ayash (Elaioussa Sebaste: W. Ruge ib. v. 2228 f. and J. Keil—A. Wilhelm in
Mon. As. Min. 1931 iii. 220 ff.), has been claimed as the oldest Cilician document yet
discovered: E. L. Hicks in the fount. Hell. Stud. 1891 xii. 226 no. 1 with cut (my
%• 444) = Michel Recueil dlnscr. gr. no. 1230 Aii '0\/3io>i | Upet/s TevKpos | TapKvapios
('son of Tarkyaris'). Other inscriptions of the sort, collected by J. Keil—A. Wilhelm in
Mon. As. Min. 1931 iii. 67 ff. nos. 63—71, include p. 69 no. 68 pi. 34 a limestone base
from the valley of tombs at Uzundja Burdj reading 'OX^tav 6 dijfios ko.1 Kavvarcu
Zij^oj^dc^j/ TeiM-pou too Tit]vo<p<xvov \ apxupea fiiyav Aids 'OA/3/ou Aperij! | tveKev Kal
eu"oias -rjs Ixwv els \ ai/rovs 5iare\ei. The name Zenophanes, which occurs repeatedly
ln these inscriptions, was of excellent omen for a priest of Zeus (cp. ZSs as priest of Zeus
at the Corycian cave (Class. Rev. 1903 xvii. 418 n. 2) and supra ii. 921 n. o).

The name Aias, son of Teukros, is further attested by the coinage of Olba. The
earliest coins, referable to the end of s. i B.C., have a throne as their obverse, a winged
1 underbolt as their reverse type (Brit. A/us. Cat. Coins Lycaonia etc. pp. Iii, 119 pi. 21,
')' Later coins, struck from 10/11 A.D. onwards by Aias, son of Teukros, high-priest
toparch of Kennatis and Lalassis (AlANToI TEYKPoV || APXIEPEHX
'oTTAPXoY KEN NAT' AAAAZX etc.), have obv. head of Aias as Hermes with
Pi ear-ring, chlamys, and caduceus, rev. triskelis (ib. pp. Iii f., 119 pi. 21, 8, McClean
ijjz ' Coins iii. 291 pi. 327, 1 f., supra i. 304 fig. 234) or winged thunderbolt (Brit.

us- Cat. Coins Lycaonia, etc. p. 120 pi. 21, 10) or inscription (ib. p. 120 pi. 11,
. It or obv. triskeUs (ib. p. 119 pi. 21, 9) or thunderbolt (ib. p. 120 pi. 21, n), rev.
^cription. Similar types occur with obv. head of Augustus (ib. p. 120 f. pi. 22, 1—3,
^cClean Cat. Coins iii. 291 pi. 327, 3), Tiberius (Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Lycaonia, etc.
P- 122 f- pi. 22, 4 f.), and M. Antonius Polemo (ib. p. 123 f. pi. 22, 6f.).

* 445- Fig. 446. Fig. 447.

*Ierme^erial coins of Diokaisareia, apart from variations of such types as the head of
the formal '**"**" P- 71 PL I2' the thunderbolt (ib. p. 71 f. pi. 12, 13), and
cUlt. g ' P- 73 pl- '3) 1). make some positive additions to our knowledge of the
a cast) sh ^ '3'eces 'ssued by Septimius Severus (ib. p. 72 pl. 12, i4 = my fig. 445 from
ea£le and°W ^ emperor's bust wearing cuirass and paludamentutu (countermarks:
buc>-a,iiUm WmSed thunderbolt), rev. the hexastyle temple of Zeus "OX/3ior, with a
Central in't m US pediment> two Nikai (?) as akrotMa, a thunderbolt upright in the
'n a sqUarerCOlumnialion' and on the left an altar in front of a tree (or possibly a tree
strfck by GVaSe' CP- the S'lrub m a pot °eside the temple of Hera on a coin of Samos
a 'Pecirnen °rdlanus Pius \Brit. Mus- Cat. Coins Ionia p. 382 no. 294. Fig. 446 is from
The'" co"ection) and the storax-trees of Selge (supra ii. 492 n. o figs. 378—
^cked rfmarl<ahle coins of Iulia Domna showing a winged thunderbolt erect on a
Ventured to •Tf0ne Ilave heen already illustrated (supra ii. 810 fig. 773 f.), and I have
°f Anat 'v Cr f'0ni tlle'r leomne arm-rests that Zeus had here taken over the throne
l"e fact tlia° niot'ler"Soddess or her consort. The inference may be strengthened by
°ther coins, struck by Philippus Senior, represent the city as a veiled and
 
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