Zeus : a study in ancient religion . Fig. 961. Fig. 962. Fig. 965. Fig. 964. him enthroned with diphidle in his right hand and a sceptre in his left^. Othersof Septimius Severus and Plautilla (fig. 963) make him hold an eagle or a Nikein place of Xh^ phidle^. On others, again, struck by Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius(fig. 964), Septimius Severus, lulia Domna, Plautilla, and Valerianus Senior, hestands, naked, with a sceptre in his right hand and an eagle at his feet^; whileyet another, by Plautilla, figures him striding, naked, with eagle and thunderboltin his hands^. F. Imhoof-Blumer and P. Gardner
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . Fig. 961. Fig. 962. Fig. 965. Fig. 964. him enthroned with diphidle in his right hand and a sceptre in his left^. Othersof Septimius Severus and Plautilla (fig. 963) make him hold an eagle or a Nikein place of Xh^ phidle^. On others, again, struck by Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius(fig. 964), Septimius Severus, lulia Domna, Plautilla, and Valerianus Senior, hestands, naked, with a sceptre in his right hand and an eagle at his feet^; whileyet another, by Plautilla, figures him striding, naked, with eagle and thunderboltin his hands^. F. Imhoof-Blumer and P. Gardner suggest that the Zeus enthronedwlih phidle and sceptre (fig. 962) may be Zeus Meilichios^ and add that the head 1 Pans. 2. 20. I f. with Sir J. G. Frazer and H. Hitzig—H. Bllimner ad loc. Thestatue has been attributed to the elder Polykleitos by Overbeck Schriftqiiellen p. 168 and Gr. Kunsttnyth. Zeus p. 50 f. (but see iiifra), G. Loschcke in the Arch. 7, xxxvi. II n. 12, Collignon Hist, cie la Sculpt, gr. i. 486,
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