Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

90
lupiter-Columns
ascending order (fig. 53)^ The column as a
whole was dedicated ' to lupiter Best and
Greatest,' but not—so far as we know—to
luno in combination with him'-.
The earlier, like the later, variety of ' Jupiter-colunm
' had a long history behind it,
being in all probability itself descended from
the Germanic IrminsiM. The one example of
which any trace subsists in our own country
stood at Durocornovium {^Cirencester^. Here
a small sandstone plinth has come to light
with a scale-pattern and three superposed figures of Mer-
curius, Minerva, luno. The statue, to judge from its di-
mensions, stood upon the capital of the column, not—as
Keller supposed—on the altar. Hertlein notes that the
column of Klein-Bouslar near Erkelenz ( Westdeutsche Zeit-
schrift 1907 xxvi. 321) exhibits the same three deities in the
same order. See further F. Hettner in the Wesldeutsche
Zeitschrift 1885 iv. 386.
1 S. Reinach in the Rev. arch. 1913 i. 27 fig. 2 'Colonne
de Miilfort.'
2 F. Hertlein op. cit. p. 158, cp. ib. p. 81.
Fig- 52.