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Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

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at Delphoi 247<br />

124, 254 n.*, J. L. Myres and M. Ohnefalsch-Richter A Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum<br />

Oxford 1899 p. 148 no. 5147, Gruppe Gr. Myth. Rel. p. 1246 n. 6). The <strong>in</strong>terpretation<br />

is precarious, though no doubt ivy-wreaths played their part <strong>in</strong> Cypriote cult—witness<br />

e.g. a bearded head of c. 450 B.C., at New York, wear<strong>in</strong>g a wreath of bay-leaves above<br />

and ivy-leaves with their berries below (J. L. Myres The Metropolitan Museum af Art<br />

Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus New York 19 14 p. 204<br />

no. 1291 fig., L. P. di Cesnola A descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote<br />

Antiquities <strong>in</strong> the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Boston [Mass.] 1885 i pi. 82<br />

no. 539). Should the Cypriote Kirrapis (Hesych. KirTapn- 5ia.8rifj.a 8 cpopovcn XUtrpioi.<br />

01 8i TO. 8ia5r]/j.aTa (popovvres KirrapoL Xiyovrai) be referred to Kiaaapos, which Hippokrates<br />

Fig. 166.<br />

Fig. 165.<br />

used <strong>in</strong> the sense of KiaaSs (Erotian. twv trap' '\<strong>in</strong>roKp6.T€i \it,iwv avvayuyri p. 83, 15<br />

Kle<strong>in</strong> Klaaapov tov Kiaabv (so all the MSS. A. Foes cj. Kiiaaapov rbv Kvaov)), and so be<br />

rendered ' ivy-crown ' ? Another <strong>Zeus</strong>-like Apollon, more certa<strong>in</strong>ly connected with ivy,<br />

is found on a i7?

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