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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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794 The owl °f Athena

Hellenistic times. Bronze coins of Pergamon (fig. 591)1 show an
owl on a winged thunderbolt inscribed AQHNAZ
NIKH4>0P0Y, ' of Athena the Bringer of Victory.' A
similar type occurs on gold2 and silver of Tarentum3
and on bronze of Herakleia in Lucania4 and Amastris
in Paphlagonia5, while small bronze pieces issued at
Athens have two owls face to face on a thunderbolt6.
Finally, Zeus himself has an owl, not an eagle, as his attribute on
imperial bronze coins of Akmoneia in Phrygia (figs. 592—594)7 an
on others struck by Alexandras i Balas at Kyrrhos in Syria {sup^a
ii. 15 n. 5 fig. 2).

Fig. 592. Fig. 593. Fig. 594.

The passage from the ornithomorphic to the anthropomorphlC
conception of Athena involves several successive stages :

1. Athena as a bird.

2. Athena as a bird with human arms.

3. Athena as a bird with human head.

4. Athena as a goddess with bird's wings.

5. Athena as a goddess with a bird for her attribute.

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1 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Mysia p. 132 pi. 27, 13, cp. ib. p. 131 pi. 27, 11 ' ^
McClean Cat. Coins iii. 62 no. 7680 pi. 264, 6, Head Hist, num? p. 536- ^ 0g
a specimen in my collection. H. von Fritze in the Corolla Numismatica Oxford l9
p. 56 f. pi. 2, 25 connects the coins inscribed A0HNAZ N I KH<t>oPoY with
Nikephoria of 183 B.C.

2 Hunter Cat. Coins i. 68 no. 24. jg,

3 Carelli Num. It. vet. p. 54 pi. 115, 232, Garrucci Man. It. ant. p. 128 pi- 99' ^
Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Italy p. 202, Hunter Cat. Coins i. 76 nos. 96—100 P»' 5'
McClean Cat. Coins i. 92 nos. 642—645 pi. 25, 9 and 10, Syli. num. Gr. it- P
236 Lloyd. ,s,

4 Carelli AW. It. vet. p. 89 pi. 163, 68, Garrucci Mon. It. ant. p. 134 P1-

Brit. Mils. Cat. Coins Italy p. 234, McClean Cat. Coins i. 116 nos. 863, 864 pi- 3°>. " b

5 £«7. CW. Ccmu Pontus etc. p. 84 pi. 19, 5, Waddington— Babelon—Ke
Monti, gr. a"As. Min.3 i. 174 no. 10 pi. 18, 8. , jjfit-

6 J. N. Svoronos Lcs motmaies d''Athhies Munich 1923—1926 pi. 24, 60— /'
Mus. Cat. Coins Attica etc. p. 79 pi. 14, 3, Hunter Cat. Coins ii. 72 nos. 182, 1 ^'^foj

' Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Phrygia pp. xxiii, 9 f. pi. 3, 3 ( = my fig. 593) an<^ ^ ^\i0
fig. 594). Fig. 592 is from a specimen kindly given to me by Mr C- T. ^'^'usb8'1''
notes that the magistrates L. Servenius Capito and Iulia Severa are apparently
and wife, both holding priestly office under Nero.
 
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