Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

Dios and Dios Nysos 287
eastern side of Lake Askania in Pisidia\ and with Zeus Bdkchos of
Pergamon in Mysia'-. The plain fact is that to the Phrygians Zeus
Fig. 187.
(ornu copiae, and liehind him an inverted vase from \\hich flows his river. AA6ANAP0C
in exergue. All within border of dots (Eckhel Doclr. num. vet!^ iii. i^of., Overbeck Gi-.
Kunstmyth. Zeus p. 223, Brit. Mus. Cat. C^zVw Phrygia pp. Iv, 183 pi. 23, 4, Head Hist.
n!i»i'-\). 671, O. Hofer in Roscher Lex. My/li. iii. 2902 f.). Fig. 187 is from a cast of the
specimen in the British Museum. R. Rochette in (he Journal des savants 1842 p. 10 n. i
held that IIottjos was a local epithet. Gerhard Gr. Myth. i. 169 took noTio'i (sic) to denote
a rain-god. Sir W. M. Ramsay I'/te Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia Oxford 1895 i.
126 n. 2 suggests 'a rude attempt at the Greek ntirios (for IIi^^ios...).' Lenormant—de
Witte El. man. cer. i. 29 were the first to detect ' un caractere bachique,' which is
rendered practically certain by the inscription from Bnrdur (infra n. 1).
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