Zeus : a study in ancient religion . p in this compound retains its original sense, arrow. See 1924 xxxviii. 92. ii. 725 figs. 660, ^()i. A. della Seta Italia ajitica Bergamo 1922 p. 252 fig. 281 showsthis statue as it stands in the Galleria dei Candelabri of the Vatican, with a bow restoredin its right hand and an eagle in its left ! ii. 739. On statuettes of Zeus the thunderer see now S. Casson in the Jonrn. 1922 xlii. 211 f. figs. 4—6. He claims that a crude example of the type from Dodona(C. Carapanos Dodone et ses ratines Paris 1878 p. 32 no. 16 pi. 13, 4, S. Casson
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . p in this compound retains its original sense, arrow. See 1924 xxxviii. 92. ii. 725 figs. 660, ^()i. A. della Seta Italia ajitica Bergamo 1922 p. 252 fig. 281 showsthis statue as it stands in the Galleria dei Candelabri of the Vatican, with a bow restoredin its right hand and an eagle in its left ! ii. 739. On statuettes of Zeus the thunderer see now S. Casson in the Jonrn. 1922 xlii. 211 f. figs. 4—6. He claims that a crude example of the type from Dodona(C. Carapanos Dodone et ses ratines Paris 1878 p. 32 no. 16 pi. 13, 4, S. Casson loc. 211 f. fig. 4 (Z)=my fig. 1017) is of the Geometric period. If so, this would be theearliest known representation of Zeus in the round. Unfortunately it is not quite certainthat Zeus was intended. The subject may be a fighting man, not a thundering god. Theholes in his hands would suit spear and shield at least as well as they Mould suit thunder-bolt and eagle. The absence of a helmet, however, tells in favour of
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