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Zeus : a study in ancient religion (1914)

Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 650

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so productive that, leaving only asmall gang to finish the upper earth, I concentrated all hands in the lowest depths.Some of the chinks contained as many as ten bronze objects apiece—blades,fibulae and an occasional votive double axe. These stood up edgeways in theslits and in many cases could not… … Fig. 40 r. niche unexamined. Nor did we leave any part of the pebbly mud at the watersedge unwashed. Thence we obtained over a dozen bronze statuettes, and half adozen engraved gems, beside handfuls of common rings, pins, and blades, perhapssucked by floods out of the stalactite niches. In hope of…

Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature

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