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Addenda 1129
G. Seure in the Rev. Arch. 1929 i. 60 n. o discusses coins of Odessos with legend
Seov /j.eyd\ov KYPZA {supra ii. 1126 figs. 952, 953) and the possibility that Ki/pcra -
K^xra was the name of an indigenous deity akin to ' k^ioKipar\i {sic). Id. in the Rev. £t.
Gr. 1929 xlii. 249 is even more venturesome [xipdos) ^(pans) or 2a(/3a<rios)!). But
A. Salac ' Le grand dieu d'Odessos-Varna et les mysteres de Samothrace' in the Bull.
Corr. Hell. 1928 lii. 395—398 had already argued that the Theos Megas at Odessos was
*AapfdXas or AepfAas, one form of the chief male divinity of the ancient Thracians.
For 'Aft-epos as the 'Axe-Eros' cp. Anakr. frag. 47 Bergk4, 48 Edmonds, 45 Diehl
tip. Hephaist. 12. 4 p. 39, 5 f. Consbruch pey&Xip 5tjvt£ fi "Eptus £Ko\pev ware ^aX/ceus [
ireXiKei with the comments of E. Schwyzer 'Axt und Hammer' in the Rhein. Mus. 1930
Ixxix. 314—318 {iri\a<vs = ocpvpoTri\eKvs, a smith's axe serving also as a hammer).
Fig. 887. Fig. 888.
ii. 316 Zeus transformed into Eros. Such a concept provides a partial justification for
the late syncretistic figures of Zeus Pdnlheos (L. Robert in the Rev. Arch. 1933 ii. 141
no. 176 cites a dedication from Carthage, now in the Louvre, Ad 'HX(<f> MeYaXip Ilax&w
i;apa7ri5t = Corp. inscr. Lat. viii no 12493) or Iupiter Pantheus (Dessau /user. Lat. set,
no. 5423 (Nescania Baeticae) Iovem Pantheum Aug. | cum aede et tetrastylo solo [p]ub. J
etc.). A bronze from the Greau collection, obtained from Greece in 1885 and now in Paris
(Keinach Rep. Stat. ii. 17 no. 4 'Zeus panthee?,' De Kidder Cat. Bronzes du Louvre i. 71
no. 482 pi. 36 ( = my fig. 887): height 0T92"'), shows a nude Zeus with the wings of Eros,
the greaves of Ares, and a stephdne surmounted by three ' fleurons.' Another, from
Cahon (Somme), now at Abbeville (C. Louandre in the Revue des Soci/tis Savantes
des De'partements Cinquieme Serie 1873 v. 322—327, Reinach Rep. Stat. iii. 8 no. 2
' Zeus Panthee') shows a nude Iupiter holding thunderbolt and eagle, with the wings
G. Seure in the Rev. Arch. 1929 i. 60 n. o discusses coins of Odessos with legend
Seov /j.eyd\ov KYPZA {supra ii. 1126 figs. 952, 953) and the possibility that Ki/pcra -
K^xra was the name of an indigenous deity akin to ' k^ioKipar\i {sic). Id. in the Rev. £t.
Gr. 1929 xlii. 249 is even more venturesome [xipdos) ^(pans) or 2a(/3a<rios)!). But
A. Salac ' Le grand dieu d'Odessos-Varna et les mysteres de Samothrace' in the Bull.
Corr. Hell. 1928 lii. 395—398 had already argued that the Theos Megas at Odessos was
*AapfdXas or AepfAas, one form of the chief male divinity of the ancient Thracians.
For 'Aft-epos as the 'Axe-Eros' cp. Anakr. frag. 47 Bergk4, 48 Edmonds, 45 Diehl
tip. Hephaist. 12. 4 p. 39, 5 f. Consbruch pey&Xip 5tjvt£ fi "Eptus £Ko\pev ware ^aX/ceus [
ireXiKei with the comments of E. Schwyzer 'Axt und Hammer' in the Rhein. Mus. 1930
Ixxix. 314—318 {iri\a<vs = ocpvpoTri\eKvs, a smith's axe serving also as a hammer).
Fig. 887. Fig. 888.
ii. 316 Zeus transformed into Eros. Such a concept provides a partial justification for
the late syncretistic figures of Zeus Pdnlheos (L. Robert in the Rev. Arch. 1933 ii. 141
no. 176 cites a dedication from Carthage, now in the Louvre, Ad 'HX(<f> MeYaXip Ilax&w
i;apa7ri5t = Corp. inscr. Lat. viii no 12493) or Iupiter Pantheus (Dessau /user. Lat. set,
no. 5423 (Nescania Baeticae) Iovem Pantheum Aug. | cum aede et tetrastylo solo [p]ub. J
etc.). A bronze from the Greau collection, obtained from Greece in 1885 and now in Paris
(Keinach Rep. Stat. ii. 17 no. 4 'Zeus panthee?,' De Kidder Cat. Bronzes du Louvre i. 71
no. 482 pi. 36 ( = my fig. 887): height 0T92"'), shows a nude Zeus with the wings of Eros,
the greaves of Ares, and a stephdne surmounted by three ' fleurons.' Another, from
Cahon (Somme), now at Abbeville (C. Louandre in the Revue des Soci/tis Savantes
des De'partements Cinquieme Serie 1873 v. 322—327, Reinach Rep. Stat. iii. 8 no. 2
' Zeus Panthee') shows a nude Iupiter holding thunderbolt and eagle, with the wings