Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

78 lupiter-Columns
spokes as he reaches forward to grasp the reins (figs. 38^ 39^). The
Fig. 39-
Fig. 40.
Provinziabnuseunis zti I'rier Trier 1893 p. 29 ff. no. 40 (plinth of red sandstone, height
0-84"', breadth of side here shown o-^6'": Iiipiter with wreath and chlamj's, holding
sceptre (?) in right hand, six-spoked wheel in left; a small bird beside his right foot).
F. Hertlein op. cit. p. 109 n. 3 prefers to call this deity Mars (the head is beardless, the
alleged wreath a ' Lockenkranz,' the chlainys a sagutn).
1 Group in stone (original height not more than o'jo"") from Meaux (Seine-et-Marne)
presumably found with a fragment of scale-patterned column (G. Gassies ' Cavalier et
anguipede sur un monument de Meaux' in the Revue des etudes anciennes 1902 iv.
287—297 with figs. I — 3, of which fig. i f. =my fig. 38, Reinach Rip. Stat. iii. 270 no. 2,
F. Hertlein op. cit. pp. 27, 29, 33, 34, 43, 60, Esperandieu Bas-reliefs de la Gaule Rom.
iv. 258 f. no. 3207 with photographic cuts). The rider, whose head and right arm are
missing, wears a wide tunic, a fluttering cloak, and hose : he passes his left hand through
a rosette-like wheel to hold the reins. The horse has neither saddle nor saddle-cloth.
The reclining figure is beardless, but male.
* Group from a column {c. 4' 50'" high) found at Butterstadt near Hanau and now in the
Museum des Geschichtsvereins at Hanau (W. Kiister in the Westdeutsche Zeitschrift 1901
XX. 325 f. with fig. = my fig. 39, G. Gassies in the Reznie des etudes ancienttes 1^02 iv. 290 fig. 3,
Reinach Rip. Stat. iii. 151 no. 7, F. Hertlein op. cit pp. 5 f., 30 n. i, 33, 34, 39 f., 43, 60).
The rider, a lupiter in type, wears tunica and paludamentum : his right arm was drawn
back and raised ; his left passes through a four-spoked wheel to hold the reins. The
second figure, beardless but male, lies on his back and turns his face towards the left side
of the rider : his right hand is pressed against the ground ; his left probably held the right
hoof of the horse on his left shoulder, the left hoof of the horse resting on his right
shoulder.