Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

caused bv the Chariot of Zeus 831
and arts but it enters into ritual and mytholog}- of long
standing.
The inhabitants of Krannon in Thessaly kept as a sacred object
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010 'S.povou ffTpoend a few examples
(i) Gems (Reinach Pierres Gravees p. 5 no. 13 pi. 3, Furtwangler Ant. Gemmen i pi.
18, 6 ( =my fig. 760), ii. 87 ; i pi. 57, 2 ( = iny fig. 44), ii. 259,
p. 229 no. 6255 pi. 43, Brit. Mus. Cat. Gems p. 92 no. 591 (infra § 9 (c))).
id. Geschnitt. Steitu Birlin
(2) Coins (Rasche Lex. Num. iv. 1196^, Suppl. iiu 266 f., Overbeck Gr. Kunstmyth.
Zeus p. 387 f. Miinztaf. 5, 9 f., Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins
Italy pp. 67 Aesemia. 74 Atella, 81 Capua, 331 f.
Bruttii, Hunter Cat. Coins i. 22 Aesernia, 26 AteUa,
125 Bruttii pi. 9, 6, Head Hist, num.- pp. 27, 31, 33 f.,
Babelon Monn. rep. rom. ii. 636 and 654 Index s.w.
'Jupiter,' 'Quadrige.' I give (fig. 787) an autonomous
copper of Capua after Garrucci Mon. It. Ant. p. 89
pi. 87, 7. The finest numismatic tj-pes are, however,
those of the Roman medallions: Brit. Mus. Cat.
Medallions p. 11 no. 24 pi. 15, i Antoninus Pius,
Frohner Med. emp. rom. p. 68 fig. Antoninus Pius,
P- 157 fig- Septimius Severus, Kubitschek Rom. Medaillons
VVien p. 5 no. 36 pi. 3 Antoninus Pius, Gnecchi p- _^_
Medagl. Rom. i. 45 no. i pi. 22, 2 Septimius Severus,
ii. 10 no. 12 pi. 43, 10 .\ntoninus Pius, ii. 14 f. no. 49 pi. 49, i Antoninus Pios, iL 28
no. II pi. 60, I M. Aurelius). .
(3) Vases (Furtwangler—Reichhold Gr. VasenmaUrei i. 4 pL i—2 the ' Francois '-
vase, ii. 194 pi. 96 a red-figured amphora in the Louvre, Lenormant—de Witte El. mon.
cer. i. 27 pi. 13 a red-figured amphora irom the Hamilton collection = Reinach Rip. Vases
IL 287, I, cp. H. B. Walters History 0/ Ancient Pottery London 1905 iL r8, 188).
(4) Keliefs (Fouilles de Delphes iv pi. 13— 14, 2, col. pi. 21— 23, i,Perrot—Chipiez ZT/j-/.
de FArt viii. 374 fig. 17s, F. Poulsen Delphi trans. G. C. Richards London 1920 p. 136 f.
fig. 55 north frieze of the Siphnian Treasury ; Die Skulpturen des Pergamon-Museums in
Photographien Berlin 1903 pis. 14, 15, Pergamon iii. 2. 48 flF. Atlas pi. lof.).
A Hellenistic group in terra cotta, found at Gnathia (Fasano) in Apulia and bequeathed
by Sir \V. Temple to the national collection, is described as follows by H. B. Walters (Brit.
Mus. Cat. Terracottas p. 324 no. D 157. My pi. xxxvii is from a photograph by Mr R. B.
Fleming) :
' Zeus in four-horse chariot, on a large plinth. His figure is \Tsible as far as
the knees: his head is inclined to his 1., r. hand extended with of)en palm, and in L he
holds up an apple (?). He has a thick straight beard and curly hair with laurel-wreath ;
drapery is twisted round his waist and 1. arm, covering the L leg. The body of the chariot
is represented by a high narrow Ik)x on a base, with an arched railing round the front and
sides ; the horses together with the pole and yoke of the chariot are much restored, as are
the wheels of the chariot, from the axles of which project lions' heads. Ht. of Zeus (with
base), I li in... Back of Zeus slighdj- modelled.'