Zeus : a study in ancient religion . i. I, 10. Asklepios (.*Zeus A(rKXr;7rids) is enthroned to the left withserpent-sceptre: on the back of the throne, behind his head, stands a Nike;beneath his left foot lies a rams-head; in his right hand is a pine-cone, possiblyresting on a phidle (?); before his feet is a second pine-cone (cp. Asklepios atSikyon as described by Paus. 2. 10. 3 ea-eXdovai §e 6 deos ia-Tiv ovk excov ycveia, Zeus Asklepios 1081 Xpvaov <a\ €\€(f)avTOS, KaXdfiidos de epyov • exei Be aK^nrpov kqi eVi ttjs erepasX€ip6s TTiTvos Kapnov rrjs rjfxepov with Sir J. G. Frazers no
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . i. I, 10. Asklepios (.*Zeus A(rKXr;7rids) is enthroned to the left withserpent-sceptre: on the back of the throne, behind his head, stands a Nike;beneath his left foot lies a rams-head; in his right hand is a pine-cone, possiblyresting on a phidle (?); before his feet is a second pine-cone (cp. Asklepios atSikyon as described by Paus. 2. 10. 3 ea-eXdovai §e 6 deos ia-Tiv ovk excov ycveia, Zeus Asklepios 1081 Xpvaov <a\ €\€(f)avTOS, KaXdfiidos de epyov • exei Be aK^nrpov kqi eVi ttjs erepasX€ip6s TTiTvos Kapnov rrjs rjfxepov with Sir J. G. Frazers note ad loc). Furtwanglerop. cit. p. 124 no. 2677 pi. 24 a cornelian = Asklepios (?) seated on a stool gazingat a beardless head held in his right hand, a serpent-staff before him, ib. p. 248no. 6753 pi. 48 a cornelian = Asklepios (.) with portrait features, seated on astool, plucking fruit and placing it in a basket on an altar i^)^ a serpent-staff beforehim). Indeed, Asklepios was commonly conceived as a kindly, human Zeus,. Fig. 925. conversant with the ways of men and able to cure their ailments. The differencebetween Zeus and Asklepios may be readily grasped, if we set side by side tworeliefs of Pentelic marble found in the precinct at Epidauros (Stais Marbres etBronzes: Ath^nes^ p. 42 f. no. 173 f., P. Kabbadias in the E0. Ap^. 1885 p. 48 ffpi. 2, 6 and 1894 p. 11 ff. pi. i, id. Fouilles dEpidaure Athenes 1893 i. 22 pi. 9,21, A. Defrasse—H. Lechat Epidaure Paris 1895 p. 83 ff. with figs., Brunn—Bruckmann Denkm. der gr. und rom. Sculpt, pi. 3, Collignon Hist, de la Sculpt. io82 Appendix L gr. ii. i86f. fig. 88). Svoronos Ath. Nationalmus. pp. 148—154 no. 173 f. pi. 31(cp. my figs. 924, 925) has made out a strong case for supposing that they weremetopes from the temple of Asklepios, carved in s. iv On his showing theone (fig. 924) represents Zeus seated on a throne, the arms of which are sup-ported by winged sphinxes and end in rams-heads. His right hand h
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