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ipigraphique 1913 i. 172 no. 461 anent an inscription from Lampsakos dedicated 6e<f>
'0\f3i<i> observed: 'A la lumiere de cette inscription il y aurait lieu de se deniander si ce
n'est pas Zeus Olbios a cornes de taureau qu'il faut voir sur les nionnaies a tete cornue
qu'on qualifie de Zeus Ammon, Pan ou Priape corniger.' Johanna Schmidt in Pauly—
Wissowa Real-Enc. xvii. 2430.
iii. 767 AT. guardian snakes in pediment. Cp. J. Johnson 'Apotropaic serpents in
Minturnae temple decoration' in the Am. Jottrn. Arch. 1939 xliii. 306.
iii. 813 n. 3 the cult of Athena on the Nike-bastion. P. Lemerle in the Bull. Corr.
Hell. 1937 lxi. 443 with figs. 4—7 reports that N. Balanos now recognises at least two
successive sanctuaries below the level of the classical temple. One, the less ancient,
is connected with the altar found by G. Welter (fig. 6). The other, the more ancient,
included a hollowed block on which idols were lying (fig. 7) and an altar of Athena
Nike mentioned in an archaic inscription [Michel Recueil dlnscr.gr. no. 671, A iff.,
Dittenberger Syll. inscr. Gr.3 no. 63, a 11 f. Kal f3o\jibv XlBwov ('Adiectivum indicat fuisse
quidem iam antea aram, sed non Iapideam'), Inscr. Gr. ed. min. i no. 24, 14f.].
iii. 832 n. 2. Dr H. Frankfort's paper on 'The Burney Relief has now appeared
in the Archiv fiir Orientforschung 1938 xii. 128—135 accompanied by three fresh
photographic illustrations. This paper, of which he most kindly sent me an offprint,
conclusively vindicates the genuineness of the relief, refers it on stylistic grounds to the
Larsa period, and inclines to identify the female figure as Lilith or some other 'inhabitant
of the Land of Death.' Her domed crown with four horns marks her as divine. Her
so-called "ring and staff" are either 'a measuring rod and line,' as on the stile of
Ur-Nammu, or 'on our relief they might well be a continuous coiled piece of rope,' such
measuring instruments serving as symbols of justice.
iii. 845 the earliest Gorgoncion. F. Chapouthier ' A travers trois gemmes prismatiques
(epoque Minoenne ['M. M. 1']) in the Milangcs G. Glotz Paris 1932 i. 183—201 publishes
a three-sided seal-stone in greyish steatite from Mallia, of which one side represents a
facing Gorgbneion with bristling hair, large ears and eyes, wide cheeks but small mouth,
and pointed chin (photographic pi. and fig. 2= J. Charbonneaux in the Rev. At. Gr.
1933 xlvi. 76 fig. 3). The face is flanked by two small branches.
iii. 927 Akmon. On Doias the ' Twin'-brother of Akmon see Norbert Jokl in Ebert
Reallex. x. 144 and 147 (alter A. Fick in the Zeitschriftfitr vergleichende Sptachforschung
1907 xli. 347).
iii. 958 the temple of Zeus at Olympia struck by lightning (Paus. 1 r. 9). C. Picard
'Zeus, Aristophane et Socrate' in the Rev. Et. Gr. 1938 li. 60—63 finds an allusion to
this incident in Aristoph. nub. 401 f. ' Prodige favorable et pieuse intention du ciel,
disaient les bons esprits! Tf nadtbv; eut replique le Socrate d'Aristophane, introducteur
de dieux nouveaux et destructeur de la tradition religieuse.' This is much better than,
with V. Coulon in the Rev. lit. Gr. 1937 1. 453 f., to assume a like happening in the
sanctuary of Zeus Sotir and Athena Sbtcira at the Peiraieus (Lykourg. in Lcocr. 17,
alib.—see Severin Solders Die ausserstddtischen Kulte und die Einigung Attikas Lund
1931 p. 2). Picard takes the opportunity of listing all the Zeus-cults in or near Athens—
a useful record.
iii. 964 copies of the Pheidiac Zeus(?). Mr R. M. Cook in a letter from Athens dated
Aug. 16, 1935 drew my attention to a small bronze figure of Zeus Olympios recently
discovered in Bulgaria, and very kindly enclosed the photograph reproduced in my
pi. lxxxii. He comments: 'It is a bronze statuette, found last March casually at Smero,
a village a little north-east of Stara Zagora. The overall height is about 25 cm.; the
height of the figure alone, 18 cm. All of the base is, I believe, original. It is not yet
published, though photos of it (from the same negative as this) have appeared in a local
paper & in one of the Sofia dailies. It is now in the Museum of the Augusta Trajana
Society, at Stara Zagora: the director is Mr- C. Raikov.'
iii. 973 Christ in the likeness of Zeus. In the Christian appropriation of pagan
statuary two methods were followed, which it might be convenient to distinguish as the
outward and the inward. The one imposed some external sign of the new religion.
The other sought to appreciate the internal qualities of the old. The first adapted. The
second adopted. And naturally the former, as the easier process, was more frequent than
the latter. The facts are fairly obvious, and I shall content myself with a single example
of each.
H. Bulle in the Einzelaufnahmtn nos. 1436 and 1437 ( = my fig. 930, a and i) Text
v. 93 publishes a bearded head of l'entelic marble (height o'23m), which came from the
neighbourhood of Athens and is now at Karlsruhe, and comments: ' Gehdrte ohne
Zweifel zu einer Herme.... Wohl originale Arbeit aus der zweiten Halfte des 5. Jahrh.
ipigraphique 1913 i. 172 no. 461 anent an inscription from Lampsakos dedicated 6e<f>
'0\f3i<i> observed: 'A la lumiere de cette inscription il y aurait lieu de se deniander si ce
n'est pas Zeus Olbios a cornes de taureau qu'il faut voir sur les nionnaies a tete cornue
qu'on qualifie de Zeus Ammon, Pan ou Priape corniger.' Johanna Schmidt in Pauly—
Wissowa Real-Enc. xvii. 2430.
iii. 767 AT. guardian snakes in pediment. Cp. J. Johnson 'Apotropaic serpents in
Minturnae temple decoration' in the Am. Jottrn. Arch. 1939 xliii. 306.
iii. 813 n. 3 the cult of Athena on the Nike-bastion. P. Lemerle in the Bull. Corr.
Hell. 1937 lxi. 443 with figs. 4—7 reports that N. Balanos now recognises at least two
successive sanctuaries below the level of the classical temple. One, the less ancient,
is connected with the altar found by G. Welter (fig. 6). The other, the more ancient,
included a hollowed block on which idols were lying (fig. 7) and an altar of Athena
Nike mentioned in an archaic inscription [Michel Recueil dlnscr.gr. no. 671, A iff.,
Dittenberger Syll. inscr. Gr.3 no. 63, a 11 f. Kal f3o\jibv XlBwov ('Adiectivum indicat fuisse
quidem iam antea aram, sed non Iapideam'), Inscr. Gr. ed. min. i no. 24, 14f.].
iii. 832 n. 2. Dr H. Frankfort's paper on 'The Burney Relief has now appeared
in the Archiv fiir Orientforschung 1938 xii. 128—135 accompanied by three fresh
photographic illustrations. This paper, of which he most kindly sent me an offprint,
conclusively vindicates the genuineness of the relief, refers it on stylistic grounds to the
Larsa period, and inclines to identify the female figure as Lilith or some other 'inhabitant
of the Land of Death.' Her domed crown with four horns marks her as divine. Her
so-called "ring and staff" are either 'a measuring rod and line,' as on the stile of
Ur-Nammu, or 'on our relief they might well be a continuous coiled piece of rope,' such
measuring instruments serving as symbols of justice.
iii. 845 the earliest Gorgoncion. F. Chapouthier ' A travers trois gemmes prismatiques
(epoque Minoenne ['M. M. 1']) in the Milangcs G. Glotz Paris 1932 i. 183—201 publishes
a three-sided seal-stone in greyish steatite from Mallia, of which one side represents a
facing Gorgbneion with bristling hair, large ears and eyes, wide cheeks but small mouth,
and pointed chin (photographic pi. and fig. 2= J. Charbonneaux in the Rev. At. Gr.
1933 xlvi. 76 fig. 3). The face is flanked by two small branches.
iii. 927 Akmon. On Doias the ' Twin'-brother of Akmon see Norbert Jokl in Ebert
Reallex. x. 144 and 147 (alter A. Fick in the Zeitschriftfitr vergleichende Sptachforschung
1907 xli. 347).
iii. 958 the temple of Zeus at Olympia struck by lightning (Paus. 1 r. 9). C. Picard
'Zeus, Aristophane et Socrate' in the Rev. Et. Gr. 1938 li. 60—63 finds an allusion to
this incident in Aristoph. nub. 401 f. ' Prodige favorable et pieuse intention du ciel,
disaient les bons esprits! Tf nadtbv; eut replique le Socrate d'Aristophane, introducteur
de dieux nouveaux et destructeur de la tradition religieuse.' This is much better than,
with V. Coulon in the Rev. lit. Gr. 1937 1. 453 f., to assume a like happening in the
sanctuary of Zeus Sotir and Athena Sbtcira at the Peiraieus (Lykourg. in Lcocr. 17,
alib.—see Severin Solders Die ausserstddtischen Kulte und die Einigung Attikas Lund
1931 p. 2). Picard takes the opportunity of listing all the Zeus-cults in or near Athens—
a useful record.
iii. 964 copies of the Pheidiac Zeus(?). Mr R. M. Cook in a letter from Athens dated
Aug. 16, 1935 drew my attention to a small bronze figure of Zeus Olympios recently
discovered in Bulgaria, and very kindly enclosed the photograph reproduced in my
pi. lxxxii. He comments: 'It is a bronze statuette, found last March casually at Smero,
a village a little north-east of Stara Zagora. The overall height is about 25 cm.; the
height of the figure alone, 18 cm. All of the base is, I believe, original. It is not yet
published, though photos of it (from the same negative as this) have appeared in a local
paper & in one of the Sofia dailies. It is now in the Museum of the Augusta Trajana
Society, at Stara Zagora: the director is Mr- C. Raikov.'
iii. 973 Christ in the likeness of Zeus. In the Christian appropriation of pagan
statuary two methods were followed, which it might be convenient to distinguish as the
outward and the inward. The one imposed some external sign of the new religion.
The other sought to appreciate the internal qualities of the old. The first adapted. The
second adopted. And naturally the former, as the easier process, was more frequent than
the latter. The facts are fairly obvious, and I shall content myself with a single example
of each.
H. Bulle in the Einzelaufnahmtn nos. 1436 and 1437 ( = my fig. 930, a and i) Text
v. 93 publishes a bearded head of l'entelic marble (height o'23m), which came from the
neighbourhood of Athens and is now at Karlsruhe, and comments: ' Gehdrte ohne
Zweifel zu einer Herme.... Wohl originale Arbeit aus der zweiten Halfte des 5. Jahrh.