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)

The owl of Athena 779

with lead (fig. 572). S. Casson1 agrees that the owl was probably

(1) an older and better type in Louvre no. 4144 (G. P. Campana Anticlie opere in plastica
Roma 1842 p. 39 ff. pi. 5, E. Saglio in Daremberg—Saglio Diet. Ant. i. 416 with fig. 504,
Von Rohden—Winnefeld op. at. iv. 1. 13 fig. 14, Reinach R^p. Reliefs ii. 250 no. 4) and

(2) a later, less satisfactory version of it in Villa Albani no. 181 (G. Winckelmann
Monumenti antichi inediti- Roma 1821 i p. (ix) with pi. on title-page, Reinach Rip.
Reliefs iii. 133 no. 1) and British Museum no. d 603 (K. Seeliger in Roscher Lex. Myth.

526 with fig. on p. 502, Brit. Mus. Cat. Terracottas p. 400 f. no. d 603 pi. 43, Von
Rohden—Winnefeld op. oil. iv. 2 pi. 32)). To these should be added the owl-on-column
that appears before Athena in the Lansdowne relief {Burlington Fine Arts Club:
Exhibition of ancient Greek Art London 1904 p. 31 f. no. 50 pi. 35 ( = my fig. 576),
H- Schrader in the Jahresh. d. oest. arch. Inst. 1911 xiv. 68 ff.
%• 73> Reinach Rip. Reliefs ii. 519 no. 2) and behind her on sundry
lrr>perial bronze coins of Athens (Imhoof-Blumer and P. Gardner
Num. Comm. Pans. iii. 133 pi. aa, 1 Naples, J. N. Svoronos Les
"tonnaies tfAthhies Munich 1923—1926 pi. 84, 9 Berlin, 10 Athens
( = my fig. j-j^ It Athens, 12 f. Berlin, 14 J. Anderson, id. in the
Tourn. Intern. d'Arch. Num. 1912 xiv. 278 fig. 23 Athens), on a
bronze medallion struck by Commodus in 191 a.d. (Imhoof-Blumer
and P. Gardner op. cit. iii. 129 pi. z, 13 British Museum (supra
P" °95 n. 5), J. N. Svoronos in the Journ. Intern. d'Arch. Num. Fig. 573-

l9'« xiv. 275 f. pi. IS"', 5 British Museum; Frohner Mt'd. emp. rom. [37 f. fig. (=my

Fig. 574. Fig. 575-

\ 574) Paris, Gnecchi Medagl. Rom. ii. 57 ™. 47 pi- 6 Paris>- and on one of
8°ld medallions from Abukir (H. Dressel Ftinf Goldmedaillons aus dem Funde von Abukir
59 n. 6) Berlin .906 pp. 15 f-« 55, 74 f- pi- 3. 3 (=™J fiS- 575), J- K- Svoronos
**■ *• '912 xiv. 278 ff. fig. 24. The column is inscribed OAVM | TTIA ! AOC, which,
™» R- Mowat saw, must be read 'OMpma 5or' i.e. the Olympic games held in the year 274
°' lhe Actian era ( = 242/3 a.d.)). Cp. supra p. 388 fig. 254- These examples of owl-
"-column recall the description in Longfellow's Hyperion Liverpool 1848 p. 79: 'the
Wl Is a grave bird,—a monk, who chants midnight mass in the great temple of Nature —

an*orite—a pillar saint—a very Simeon Stylites of his neighbourhood.'
^ S. Casson in the Catalogue of the Acropolis Museum Cambridge 1921 ii. 37, 253.
y fig. 572 is from L. Ross Archdologischc Aufsdtze Leipzig 1855 pi. 14, 2.