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Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

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372<br />

lanus bifrontal on co<strong>in</strong>s<br />

Seasons issue towards a boy symbolis<strong>in</strong>g the New Year. This<br />

bizarre medallion is, I th<strong>in</strong>k \ merely a tooled specimen of a type<br />

Fig. 279.<br />

first struck by Anton<strong>in</strong>us Pius <strong>in</strong> 158 A.D. (fig. 277)- and subsequently<br />

repeated by Commodus <strong>in</strong> 185 A.D. (fig. 278)1 The god<br />

is lupiter*, not lanus, and a Paris example of the later issue shows<br />

1 Mr G. F. Hill, with whom I have discussed the type, endorses my op<strong>in</strong>ion. I see<br />

too that Frohner Mid. emp. ro<strong>in</strong>. p. 121 n. i has expressed the same doubt.<br />

- Gnecchi Meddgl. Rom. ii. 15 no. 54 pi. 48, 9 ( = my fig. 277) from a specimen<br />

formerly <strong>in</strong> the Stroganoff, latterly <strong>in</strong> the Evans collection.<br />

' Gnecchi Medagl. Rom. ii. 60 no. 75 pi. 83, 3 (=my fig. 278) from a specimen at<br />

Monaco, ib. no. 76, ih. no. 77 pi. 83, 4, Brit. Mus. Cat. AledalHons p. 24 no. 15 pi. 30, 2,<br />

Kubitschek Rom. Mcdaillons Wicn p. 7 no. 57 pi. 4 (mounted and silvered to serve as a<br />

bulla), E. Gerhard <strong>in</strong> the Arch. Zeit. i86r xi.x. 137 pi. 147, 6 and 7 with comments by<br />

F. Wieseler ib. pp. 137— 140.<br />

^ Eckhel Doctr. nttm. Tet."^ vii. 113 already describes him as 'luppiter.' F. Wieseler<br />

<strong>in</strong> Miiller—Wieseler Denkm. d. alt. Kt<strong>in</strong>st ii. 4. 65 pi. 74, 960 and <strong>in</strong> the Arch. Zeit. loc. cit.<br />

says '<strong>Zeus</strong>'; H. A. Grueber <strong>in</strong> the Brit. Mns. Cat. Medallions p. 24, 'Jupiter'; Gnecchi<br />

op. cit. ii. 60, ' Giove o il .Secolo' (cp. <strong>in</strong>fra p. 373 n. 2). The notion of C. Lenormant<br />

Nouvelle galerie mythologique (Tresor de numismatique et de glyptique) Paris iS^o p. 135<br />

no. 8 pi. 42 that a specimen on which the god is apparently beardless (??) represents ' Le<br />

jeune empereur' is justly ridiculed by F. Wieseler <strong>in</strong> the .4rch. Zeit. loc. cit. ; but his own<br />

view that the medallion <strong>in</strong> question shows ' Helios-Apollon ' is not much better. Possibly<br />

Lenormant's draw<strong>in</strong>g (reproduced <strong>in</strong> the .4rch. Zeit. 1861 .\ix pi. 147, 7) is <strong>in</strong>correct.

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