Zeus : a study in ancient religion . Fig. 985. Fig. 986. can say is that a buskined Zeus of the Arcadian type^ would not be out ofplace in a town which recognised Zeus Sabdzios^ and Zeus Bdkchos^. Popular enthusiasm, or policy, having thus raised the emperor to the level ofZeus Philios^ went a step further and identified the two. An alliance-coin ofThyateira and Pergamon (fig. 986) surrounds the laureate bust of Trajan with 1 H. von Fritze loc. cit. p. 69 n. i points out that Pergamos is first mentioned asfounder of the state in two mutually complementary inscriptions of c. 50 publishedto

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Zeus : a study in ancient religion . Fig. 985. Fig. 986. can say is that a buskined Zeus of the Arcadian type^ would not be out ofplace in a town which recognised Zeus Sabdzios^ and Zeus Bdkchos^. Popular enthusiasm, or policy, having thus raised the emperor to the level ofZeus Philios^ went a step further and identified the two. An alliance-coin ofThyateira and Pergamon (fig. 986) surrounds the laureate bust of Trajan with 1 H. von Fritze loc. cit. p. 69 n. i points out that Pergamos is first mentioned asfounder of the state in two mutually complementary inscriptions of c. 50 publishedtogether by H. Hepding in the Ath. Mitth. 1909 xxxiv. 329 ff.: 6 5^/aos \ Mtdpa-ddrrju MtjvodoTovrbu 8ia yeuovs d/)xtepe[<x] | Kal lepea tou Kadrjyefxovos Aiovijaov 5ia yevo[vs,] \aTTolKaJTacrTTjaavTa to2s TrarpwiOiS deois T\r}v re TroXtJ/] | Kal \t7]v^ x^P^^ ^^- y^vofxevov rijsTrarpidos /x[eTd Il^] \ Kal ^iXeraipov veov KTiarrju and 6 Stj/xos eTifx-qacv \ [Mt^paSctrTjjp^ilrjvodbrov rbv bia yev\^ovs apxi-^p^o. \

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