Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

lanus bifrontal on coins 367
the arch he is still comparable with lupiter, who on a Roman bronze
lamp stands with thunderbolt and sceptre underneath an arch resting-
on two Corinthian columns (fig. 264)^ Similarlx- in modern Hindu
Fig. 265 a. Fig. 265 /'. Fig. 266.
art Brahma is a four-faced (fig. 265), Vishnu a one-faced god
(fig. 266) seated above a lotus beneath a starry arch I
(0) lanus bifrontal on coins.
The really distinctive feature of the anthropomorphic lanus is,
of course, his double face. On republican and imperial coins he
is almost^ invariably bifrontal. Denarii of the gens Furia, struck
right; rev. i'MTRPX[ni]MP vii[i] cosvpp s c lanus holding long sceptre, on a base
beneath an arch.
' Brii. J/us. Cat. Bronzes p. 326 no. 2^\. 13 no. 68 pi. 7, p. 16 no. 93, p. 62 no. 430 and no. 431 pi. 11, p. 90
no. 594, p. 174 no. 1 155 and no. 1156 fig. 245, p. 209 no. 1394, p- 225 no. 1498 pi. 37),
and need not be viewed as an attribute of lupiter. The phalloid horns are of course pro-
phylactic.
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Figs. 265 and 266 are from two alabaster carvings in my possession. Height : 6 } f ins.
' Infra §3 (a) v [o) fin.