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that exact title. The name matters little ; the functions, as
expressed in the attributes snake and horn, are all important.
Yet in one instance 1 , the design in Fig. 90, we have direct evidence
Fig. 90.
of actual names, which, but for the inscription, we should never
have dared to supply.
Aristomache and Theoris dedicated (it) to Zeus Epiteleios, Philios, and to
Philia, the mother of the god and to Tyche Agathe the wife of the god.
Aristomache and Theoris we may see in the two women worshippers.
Probably they are mother and wife of the man who
walks between them. The inscription teems with suggestion. It
is Olympian in spirit ; the two women pray first and foremost to
Zeus the Accomplisher, no doubt that the wife's marriage may be
fruitful and the mother may see her children's children. It is
patriarchal, for Zeus has a wife ; it is matrilinear, for his mother
is invoked.
But it is the names that most amaze and delight us. Zeus
1 Jacobsen Coll. Ny Carlsberg, Copenhagen Cat. 95, first published and discussed
by A. Furtwangler, Ein soqenanntes Todtcninahlrelief mit Inschrift in Sitzungsberichte
d. k. Bay. Akad. d. Wissenschaften, philos.-philolog. Ki. 1897, p. 401.