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smaller scale, with a palm-branch in its right hand—possibly Nike, but possibly
a victor in some local contest who had dedicated a statue to Zeus and Hera1.

The pillar present in these Graeco-Roman compositions was itself no part
of the older Hellenic type—witness a metope from Selinous now at Palermo

1 This relief has been variously interpreted. P. Perdrizet in the Bull. Con: Hell.
1899 xxiii. 559 f. pi. 3, 1 thinks that it represents Zeus and Hera, or else Asklepios
and Hygieia. W. Amelung in the Rom. Mitth. 1901 xvi. 258—263 fig. 1 reverts to an
older view that the deities are Sarapis and Isis. Reinach loc. cit. is non-committal.

Fig. 832.

A. Maiuri, moved by the new Rhodian discovery, inclines to Zeus and Hera. I agree
with him: Sarapis, as Amelung admits, ought to have had a chitdn and a much more
prominent kdlathos.

For similar thrones see e.g. that of Epiktesis (supra i. 536 fig. 407) and that of
Dionysos (supra i. 710 with pi. xl, 4). A relief in Pentelic marble, now at Munich
(A. Furtwangler Ein Hundert Tafeln nach den Bildwerken der kgl. Glyptothek zu
Munchen Miinchen 1903 pi. 28, id. Glyptolhek zu MUnchen* p. 183 ff. no. 206, Reinach
Rip. Reliefs ii. 75 no. 1. My fig. 833 is from a photograph), again shows Zeus on his
throne with Hera (?) standing before him, a group of worshippers at their altar, and a
pillar surmounted by two archaistic figures, male and female, beneath the boughs of
a huge plane-tree. Furtwangler comments (p. 185): ' Leider fehlt eine Dedikations-
Inschrift, so dass wir das gdttliche Paar nicht benennen konnen. Es kann ebensogut
irgend ein lokaler Heros und seine Gattin wie etwa Zeus Philios mit Agathe Tyche sein.'