Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

xii Preface
Prof. R. C. Bosanquet, Mr F. M. Cornford, Mr G. G. Coulton, Prof.
R. M. Dawkins, Sir J. G. Frazer, Dr J. Rendel Harris, Miss J. E.
Harrison, Mr E. S. Hartland; Dr G. F. Hill, Prof. R. H. Kennett,
Miss M. E. H. Lloyd, the Rev. H. E. Maddox, Mr A. D. Nock,
Prof. A. C. Pearson, Mr T. Davies Pryce, Dr G. H. Rendall,
Miss H. Richardson, Mr E. J. Seltman, Mr C. T. Seltman, and
Mr C. M. Sleeman. I have been able to profit by them all.
For illustrations too I am under heavy obligation to others.
Prof R. M. Dawkins allowed me to publish for the first time a
highly important seal-stone from Melos, now in his possession.
Mr C. D. Bicknell gave similar permission in the case of a gem
belonging to the Lewis Collection at Corpus Christi College,
Cambridge. Mr A. H. Smith furnished casts of several gems in
the British Museum. Mr B. Staes, by sending a cast of the
inscribed serpentine celt in the Central Museum at Athens, enabled
me to produce the first really accurate rendering of that famous
object.
Mr S. C. Cockerell of the Fitzwilliam Museum has provided me
with numerous casts of coins in the McClean and Leake Collections.
Mr G. Macdonald supplied the cast of a rarity in the Hunterian
Collection at Glasgow. But, above all, my numismatic friends at
the British Museum, in particular Dr G. F. Hill and Mr E. S. G.
Robinson, have for years past sent me a steady stream of well made
casts, which— as the following text will abundantly prove—have
served to throw valuable light on the Zeus-cults of the ancient
world. The Keeper of the coins and his Assistants have also spared
time to discuss with me many of the types. They have repeatedly
verified points at my request, and in other ways have helped
forward my project. To give but one instance, they reserved for mc
the right to publish the type of Zeus Spdlaxos, which I had detected
on a unique coin of Aphrodisias. In marshalling the evidence of
coin-types I owe much also to the keen eyes and exact knowledge
of my friend and former pupil Mr C. T. Seltman. He has procured
for me rare specimens from foreign collectors or, where originals
were not to be had, has obtained at least impressions of the coins
that I needed. Moreover, he was the first to read the title of Zeus
Akraios on a stater of Praisos and—a matter of greater moment
the first to determine the true sequence and significance of the
Zeus-types at Olympia.
A fine photograph of the profile of Zeus on Mt Juktas, taken by
Mr A. Trevor-Battye, was sent me by Mr C. R. Haines. Photo-
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