Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

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Zeus and Dionysos
pellatives: he was AiialosiJ) and Dyalos among the Paiones', Sdbos or
Sabdzios among the Saboi-, Asdoules in the vineyards of Maidike
(fig. 175)^ PleistorosQ) at Apsinthos^ Bdlin or the like elsewhere'.
Rhaskyporis in obedience to his god's command, and pursued him to the Chersonese
a revolt quelled by L. Piso, praetor of Famphylia, in 1 1 B.C. (Dion Cass. 54. 34). On the
Bessoi see further E. Oberhummer in Pauly— Wissowa Real-Enc. iii. 329 ff.
1 Supra p. 250 n. 4.
" Siipi a i. 395, 400.
* This relief (height, exclusive of tenon, o"46"': breadth 0-41'"), found in the ruins of
an old church at Melenikos (Melnik) on the S.W. flank of Mt Orbelos, brought to
H. Mordtmann in the Ath. Milth. 1896 xxi. 100 f. no. 6), and
Thessalonike in 1895 (J.
now at Brussels (F. Cumont Catalogue des sculptures &= inscriptions antiques (monuments
lapidaires) des Must'es Royaux du Cinquantenaire"^ Bruxelles 19 13 p. 63 ff. no. 52 fig.),
shows a youthful god riding from left to right. His long hair is bound by a strophion, in
the front of which are stuck two little clusters of ivy-berries. Across his chest is slung a
neliris. On his feet are Thracian boots. Being in a festive mood, he grasps with his right
hand the beard of a goat-footed Pan, who follows his master, hanging on in true Greek
fashion to the horse's tail. In the background is a huge vine with two small vintagers in
its branches. One of these holds out a big bunch of grapes to the god as he passes by.
Old Silenos in a tufted costume, with his chiton knotted round his waist, dangles a bunch
in his right hand and raises a reaping-hook in his left to gather a second. Under the
horse is seen a panther, half-hidden by the vine. The slab is inscribed K\ai'5iav6s llvppoi
KCLL Uvppos I
Advdpov
Kai oi Trepi avTov{i) aaXrapioi \
dei^
'AaSovXr] rip