Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

Gradual elimination of the thunderbolt 743
in the old familiar scheme. Since Zeus Ithonidtas^ and Zeus Pats'^
were alike kept in the house of their priest, who held office for a
year only*, we must suppoie that they were statues of manageable
weight, life-sized figures of thin beaten bronze at the most^
Fig. 679. Fig. 680.
Fig. 678.
Zeus militant with bolt and bird occurs sporadically throughout
the classical period. He appears in this guise, now as a bronze
statuette'^, now in a vase-painting", now again as a coin-type'^, now
Chron. Fourth Series 1902 ii. 323 f. no. 13 pi. 15, 13 ( = my fig. 680), Imhoof-Blunier and
P. Gardner Num. Comm. Pans. ii. 845. pi. R, 13, Head Hist. nu??t.- p. 413.
^ Supra p. 741 n. 4.
'^ Supra p. 742 n. 5.
* On the possible implications of such an annual tenure see Folk-Lore 1904 xv. 394 ff.
* E. Pfuhl in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. vli. 2193.
^ Miss C. A. Hutton in the Ann. Brit. Sch. Ath. 1896— 1897 iii. 149 ff- pi. 10, i (in
the collection of M. Cambanis, Athens. Right arm broken off. Height o-i26). See
also Reinach Rip. Stat. iii. i nos. 4, 5, 7.
* Supra i. 39 f. fig. II.
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(i) On coppers of Kierion in Thessaly, struck after c. 350 B.C. {Brit. Mus. Cat.
Coins Thessaly etc. p. 15 pi. 31, 2, Head Hist, nion.'^ p. 293).
(2) On a silver coin of Akarnania, struck c. 250 (?)— 167 B.C.
(F. Imhoof-Blumer in the Num. Zeilschr. 1878 p. 30 f. pi. i,
5, Head Hist, num?' p. 333). (3) On a Cretan kistophoros
(supra i. 402 f. fig. 300). (4) On a silver coin of Tabai in
Karia, struck in early imperial times [Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins
Caria, etc. p. 162 pi. 25, 8, Head Hist, num.- p. 626). (5) On
coppers of Attouda in Karia, struck in the time of Septimius
Severus (Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Caria, etc. p. 65 pi. 10, 16,
Head Hist, num."^ p. 611). (6) On a copper of Kyzikos,
struck in imperial times (Hunter Cat. Coins ii. 267 no. 19). -p- fc.
(7) On a copper of Ephesos, struck by Salonina (fig. 681 from
a specimen in my collection). (8) On a copper of Pautalia in Thrace, struck by Caracalla