Smith, Arthur H. [Editor]; British Museum <London> / Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities [Editor]: Catalogue of sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (Band 3) (London, 1904)

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broken away. The back of the group, which is composed
almost as a relief, is only slightly worked.

The plinth is inscribed . . . coh(ortis) V Cal(laicorum) ex
[yoto].....t.

The figure when perfect probably held a double axe in
the right hand and a thunderbolt in the left. The
worship of Jupiter of Doliche (an iron-working town in

Fig. 3. No. 1532.

Commagene) spread through the provinces of the Roman
empire in the second century a.o. Compare the silver-
gilt votive tablets from Heddernheim, in the Room of
Gold Ornaments. 2nd-3rd cent. a.d.—Blacas Coll.

Parian marble. Height, 10 inches.

1533. Ganymede and the eagle of Zeus. Ganymede stands to
the front, with legs crossed, leaning with the left arm on
the trunk of a tree, and with the right hand resting on
his hips. The left hand, now lost, held a pedum, part of
which remains. He wears a chlamys fastened by a brooch