Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

The differentiation of the Sky-god's faces 387
(t) The differentiation of the Sky-god's faces.
Secondly, the two faces of the bifrontal deity are often differ-
entiated. And this differentiation may vary much in its degree.
Boreas, as we have just seen\ had two bearded profiles, one dark,
the other light. Argos on the kratcr from Ruvo- and lanus (?)
on the Roman sard^ joined a bearded to a beardless visage. The
Fig. 195.
result was a piquant contrast, which acquired a certain popularity.
Thus a double herm to be seen in the Museo Capitolino at Rome-*
combines a bearded with a beardless Dionysos. Another, a work of
Augustan date now in the Vatican, links a would-be archaic with
a Hellenistic head of Silenos (fig. 295)^ Or ag^ain, agam, two heads are
1 Supra p. 380 f. fig. 288. .
'^ Supra p. f. 379 fig. 287.
» Sttpra p. 385 fig. 293.
• Stuart Jones Cat. Sculpt. Mus. Capit. Rome p. 144 no. 14 pi. 34, G. Bottaii II Museo
Capitolino Roma 1750 i Animadversiones pi. 6, 2 (facing p. 18). Height I'oSj"' to base
of shaft, which does not belong to the heads. Luna marble. The nose of the unbearded
head and a lock of hair by its left ear have been restored.
A bronze in the Museum at Cassel shows a nude youth of effeminate aspect holding
an adze (?) in his lowered right hand and a Janiform amulet in his raised left hand : the
little figure has a beardless face in front, a bearded face behind (Gerhard Etr. Spiegel i. 40
pi. 13, 5 f., id. Ant. Bildw. pi. 303, 4 f., Reinach Ki^p. Stat. ii. 176 no. 9 'Hermaphro-
dite?'). Gerhard Etr. Spiegel i. 40 pi. 13,
Rome, which unites the face of a child with that of a lion.
2— 4 cp. a bronze amulet, acquired by him in
* E. Pistolesi // Vaticano Descritio cd Ilhistrato Roma 1829 iv. 141 pi. 55, i ( = niy
fig. 295), A. Nibby in F. A. Visconti^G. A. Guattani // Museo Chiaranionti aggiunto al
Pio-Clementino da N. S. Pio vii P. M. Roma 1843 iii pi. 9, A. Furtwangler in the Ann.
d. hist. 1877 xlix. 199 n. i and 234 f. { = id. Kleine Schi-iften Miinchen 1912 i. 14,!; n. 2
and 173), Helbig Guide Class. Ant. Rome i. 44 no. 75, Amelung Sculpt. Vatic, i. 461 f.
no. 229 pi. 47. Height o"365"'. Yellowish marble of fine grain,
25—2