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 stone of Dousares 909

a pile or pillar between two smaller stones (fig. 761)1. All these
are best interpreted as stones of Dousares2, and it has been well
suggested that on a coin of Petra struck by Severus the object
held in the hand of the city-goddess is none other than Dousares'
sacred pillar (fig. 762)3.

Dussaud4 remarks that the same triad of stones is to be seen
on other Nabataean monuments. Thus at el-UmtaHyyeh, some hours

Fig. 764. Fig. 765. Fig. 766.

south-west of Bostra, the lintel spanning the main gate of an
ancient pagan temple shows in relief the three stones on their
stepped base with altars right and left, all visible between the
Pillars of a long arcade (fig. 763), while at Meddin Salih {el-Hejr)

% 760) Elagabalus AOY with OC (probably for 0£[OC]), S. A. Cook op. cit. p. 25
P1- 33. 4-

1 Brit. Mm. Cat. Coins Arabia etc. pp. xxxi, 27 no. 3 (my fig. 761 is from a cast)
XAf AKM[W...].

See Sir G. F. Hill id. pp. xxiii, xxvii f., xxxi.

3 Id- id. p. xxxviii n. 2 pi. 49, 21 ( = my fig. 762) AAPIANHTTET PAMHTPO-
■TOAIC.

R. Dussaud Notes de mythologie syrienne Paris 1905 p. 173 f. fig. 41 ( = my fig. 763).