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Zeus : a study in ancient religion (1914)

Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 985

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619)1. A white-groundlekythos by a minor painter of the middle archaic period, about480 B.C., gives head and hand only, helmet and pomegranate beingthe essential points (fig. 620)2. The head is simply copied fromthe current coinage of Athens—its position in profile to the right,its scroll-pattern,… … Fig. 620. 1 A. Furtwangler in Roscher Lex. Myth. i. 689, id. Masterpieces oj Gk. Sculpt.p. 445 n. 5. I am much indebted to Dr F. Matz of the Staatliches Lindenau-Museum atAltenburg for most kindly sending me the photograph of vase no. 203, from which myfig. 619 was made. 2 Brit. Mus. Cat. Vases…

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

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