Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

74^ Gradual elimination of the thunderbolt
at Florence (pi, xxxi)\ Later modifications of the type made less of
Fig. 684.
the chlamys (fig. 685 and pi. xxxii, i Y or dispensed with it altogether,
the body, the left leg flexed and turned outwards, the proportion of the head to the whole
height, etc. If we may base an opinion on this superb bronze, the original must have
been a masterpiece worthy of Pheidias himself.
^ Overbeck Gr. Kunsimyth. Zeus p. 145 f. no. 46 fig. 1 7 ( = my pi. xxxi), A. Baumeister
in his Denkm. iii. 2127 f. fig. 2384, W. Amelang F/orentmer Atitiken Mlinchen 1893 p. 10,
Reinach Rep. Stat. ii. 9 no. 7. Height : o'28'".
^ Overbeck Gr. Kunstmyth. Zeus pp. 147— 149 ('Neunte Gruppe') nos. 55—63.
Fig. 685 is a fine bronze from Paramythia, now in the British Museum (H. B. Walters
Bi-it. Ahis. Cat. Bronzes p. 36 no. 275 pi. 7, i, id. British Museum: Select Bronzes
London 1915 pi. 20 with text, Clarac Mus. de Sculpt, iii. 48 pi. 403 figs. 687, 687 A =
Reinach Rip. Stat. i. 189 no. 3), after a photograph by Mr W. H. Hayles. Height: 7f ins.
Patina: light green. A. S. Murray Gfeek Bronzes London 1898 p. 8[ pi. 3 claimed this
statuette as belonging to 'the school of Lysippos.' Cp. with it another from the same
locality, preserved at Constantinople and published by M. Collignon in the Bull. Corr.
Hell. 1885 ix. 42—45 pi. 14.
PI. xxxii, I is a small silver statuette (height : o"o65, with base o'l) found by a vine-
grower at Macon in 1764 together with other statuettes in the same metal and about
30,000 gold and silver coins, mostly of imperial date, but none later than Gallienus (260
268 A. D.). Nine of the statuettes, including this one, are now in the British Museum
{Brit. Mus. Cat. Silver Plate p. 8 no. 27 pi. 6). The thunderbolt of Zeus has a lotus-bud
towards either end. Beside the god is a she-goat (Amaltheia?) : cp. supra i. 52 fig. 28,
706 fig. 522. PI. xxxii, 1 is from a photograph by Mr R. B. Fleming.