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Zeus : a study in ancient religion (1914)

Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 1095

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> = 253A.D. 6 Id. ib. p. 192 f. no. 8 pi. 7, 7 (=my fig. 750) London (Brit. Mus. Cat. CoinsGalatia, etc. p. 240 no. 22 pi. 2.8, 1). 906 The stone of Elagabalos also gold pieces giving us the processional type (fig. 751)1 and—best of all—a detailed representation of the stone itself (figs. 752,75… … Fg- 753- three horizontal bands and three rows of points, the whole effectbeing that of a quasi-ia.ce. Uraniusdomination was brief (248—253 A.D.). But a fresh fillipwas given to the cult, when Aurelian in 272 routed the forces ofZenobia near Emesa and entered the town to pay his debt ofgratitude to…

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

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