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Zeus : a study in ancient religion (1914)

Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 660

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ribed and figured a thin plaque of lead in theCapuchin Museum at Palma, said to have come from the talayot ofSon-Texeguet near Lluc-Major in Minorca (fig. 413). He supposedthat it was of Phoenician or Carthaginian origin, and suggested,shrewdly enough, that it looked rather like the skin of an… … ig- 413- Fig. 414. collection of M. Moragues (fig. 414)—another thin leaden plaqueapparently representing a conventionalised bucraniiim with a similartreatment of the horns and eyes. The decadence of the Minoan type can, however, be best seenin the old indigenous pottery of Apulia. In 1908^ I drew…

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

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