Cook, Arthur B.: Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 3,2): Zeus god of the dark sky (earthquake, clouds, wind, dew, rain, meteorits) (Cambridge, 1940)

1038 Appendix R

(fig. 834)K This metope, which may be referred to the first half of the fifth
century B.C., represents Zeus seated on a rock2. He has a diadem in his hair
and sandals on his feet. A himdtion, which has slipped from his left shoulder,

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Fig. 834.

1 O. Benndorf Die Metopen von Selinunt Berlin 1873 P- 54 ff- P1- 8' Brun"—Brack -
mann Denkm. der gr. und rbm. Sculpt, pi. 290, 1 ( = my fig. 834), Reinach Rip. Reliefs
ii. 399 no. 1. The metope belongs to the temple commonly known as E or R and
regarded as that of Hera (?). It is carved in local limestone, the face, hands, and feet
of the goddess being added in white marble—a peculiar technique, which together with
other traces of archaism (hair of Zeus, full-front torso, costume of Hera, etc.) points to
a date c. 475—460 B.C. (G. M. A. Richter The Sculpture and Sculptors of th Greeks
Yale Univ. Press 1929 p. 31 with fig. 410).

2 It would be rash to identify this rock with Mt. Ide or any other definite locality.