Zeus : a study in ancient religion . n tail {id. 752). (13) A small bearded (?) head in amber {id. ib. p. 753 f. Atlas pi. 12, 6).(14) Sundry objects in ivory, a bull carved in the round {id. ib. p. 754 no. i Atlaspi. 12, 7) and a perfume-bottle (?) in the shape of a headless female body {id. ib. p. 753 2 with figs.). (15) Two pieces of rock-crystal shaped like plano-convex lenses { 756. On the vexed question of classical lenses see H. Bliimner Technologie undTerminologie der Geiverbe und Kiinste bei Griechen und Rotnern Leipzig 1884 iii. 298 ff.). (16) Two small oblon
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . n tail {id. 752). (13) A small bearded (?) head in amber {id. ib. p. 753 f. Atlas pi. 12, 6).(14) Sundry objects in ivory, a bull carved in the round {id. ib. p. 754 no. i Atlaspi. 12, 7) and a perfume-bottle (?) in the shape of a headless female body {id. ib. p. 753 2 with figs.). (15) Two pieces of rock-crystal shaped like plano-convex lenses { 756. On the vexed question of classical lenses see H. Bliimner Technologie undTerminologie der Geiverbe und Kiinste bei Griechen und Rotnern Leipzig 1884 iii. 298 ff.). (16) Two small oblong seal-stones of steatite (F. Halbherr loc. cit. p. 757 f. with fig.). (17) Phoenician or pseudo-Egyptian majolicas {id. ib. p. 758 ff. with figs.). (18) Objectsin terra cotta, the archaic figurine of a bull; the two heads of a god, with a modius,and a goddess, with a , embracing; lamps with acanthus-leaf handles {id. * 759 ff with fig.). (19) Arrow-heads and lance-heads of iron {id. ib. p. 764 with figs.). X •4-». c3 :3 OSON ^3 c^ 9-1 PL,0) o a. c • r-1 O o G <v UiCO The Mountain-cults of Zeus 939 Mount Juktas^ (20) A tablet of terra cotta bearing in rubricated characters of Roman date the crucialinscription At I8ai[o}] | evxw \ A.(rT7]p [A]\\€^au\5pov (E. Fabricius in the At/i. X. 280f., F. Halbherr loc. cit. p. 766). Thus for more than a millennium—from * Minoan to Roman times—men paid theirvows to Zeus I5aios in the shadow of a great rock and turned again, well content, to theduties that awaited them in the sunlight five thousand feet below. The cave on Mt Ide called Arkdsion {supra p. 548 f.) has been identified tentativelywith the Kaifiares grotto (L, Biirchner in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc, ix. 861). But itstraditional connexion with the Kouretes (supra p. 549 n. t) points rather to identificationwith the better known Idaean Cave, where in fact the Curetic tympanon was found {supra).The name ApKiacov has been interpreted (L. Biirchn
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