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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

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i. 549 ff. Ba'albek and its cults. The official record of the German excavations has
now been published in three stately volumes—T. Wiegand Baalbek. Ergebnisse der Aus-
grabungen und Untersuchungen in den Jahren 1878 bis 1905. Vol. i by B. Schulz and
H. Winnefeld with the assistance of O. Puchstein, D. Krencker, H. Kohl, G. Schumacher.
Berlin—Leipzig 1921. Vol. ii by D. Krencker, T. von Liipke, and M. Winnefeld with
the assistance of O. Puchstein, B. Schulz. Berlin—Leipzig 1923. Vol. iii by H. Kohl,
D. Krencker, O. Reuther, F. Sarre, and M. Sobernheim. Berlin—Leipzig 1925.

See also Gruppe Myth. Lit. 1921 p. 396 f., F. Cumont 'Le Jupiter Mliopolitain et
les divinites des planetes' in Syria 192r ii. 40—46, id. 'A quels dieux etaient consacres
les temples de Baalbek ?' id. 1925 vi. 202, H. Thiersch ' Zu den Tempeln und zur Basilika
von Baalbek' in the Nachr. d. kbn. Gesellsch. d. Wiss. Gbtlingen Phil.-hist. Classe 1925
p. 1 ff. (assigns the smaller temple to the Syrian Magna Mater), U. Wilcken 'Zu den

Fig. 872. Fig. 873.

" Syrischen Gbttern" ' in the Festgabe fiir Adolf Dcissmatin sum 60. Gebartstag 7. Nov-
ember IQ26 Tubingen 1927 pp. 1—19, H. Seyrig in Litteris 1928 pp. 165—179 (assigns
the smaller temple to Hermes assimilated to the Semitic Gennaios), id. ' La Triade
Heliopolitaine et les Temples de Baalbek' in Syria 1929 x. 314—356 with pis. 82—86
(p. 346 n. 6 denies the solarity of Iupiter Heliopoli/anus), D. Krencker in the Jahrb.
d. Dentsch. Arch. Inst. 1929 xliv Arch. Anz. pp. 169—181 figs. 1—7 (discusses the
successive phases in the construction of the temple of Zeus), and cp. M. Rostovtzeff
'Hadad and Atargatis at Palmyra' in the Am. Journ. Arch. 1933 xxxvii. 58—63 with
pi. 9, 1—10 (clay tesserae etc.).

i. 551 n. 2. Corp. inscr. Lat. vi. 4 no. 36803.

i. 567 ff. Iupiter Heliopolitanus and the Bull. R. Dussaud ' Heliopolitanus' in
Pauly—Wissowa Keal-Enc. viii. 50—57. Mendel Cat. Sculpt. Constantinople iii. 31 ff.
no. 829 fig. ( = my fig. 872) publishes a small altar (height o-65m), of local limestone, from
Niha a village of Lebanon at the foot of Djebel Sannin, which shows the god holding
whip and corn-ears, with a polos on his head, a necklace with central medallion on his
chest, and stiff drapery with six four-leaved rosettes arranged in panels. He stands on a
pedestal, the front of which has a goddess in a niche. And he is flanked by two bulls.
Mendel ib. iii. 613 ff. no. 1404 fig. ( = my fig. 873) adds a statuette (height o-76'"), of local
limestone, from Soukhne to the north-east of Palmyra, which shows a similar type with
even richer decoration. On the breast is engraved the god himself, flanked by Helios and
Men: on the abdomen, Hera or Demeter, flanked by Athena and Hermes (?). On the
base is inscribed in lettering of s. ii—iii A.D. I(ovi) • O(ptimo) • M(aximo) • H(eliopolitano) \
Sex(tus) • Jfasius • Proculus • praef(ectus) • coli(ortis) • II• Thrac(nm) • v(ptum) p(os;iit). But
 
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