Zeus : a study in ancient religion . rch. Zeit, 1871 xxix. 145 n. 37, Wien. Vorlegebl. iv pi. 9, 8 t^,H. Diitschke Antike Bildwerke in Oberitalien Leipzig 1880 iv. 237 no. 538,A. Fuitwangler in Roscher Lex. Myth. i. ii7of. fig., M. N. Tod—A. J. B. Waceop. cit. p. ii3f. fig. 14, Reinach Rep. Reliefs iii. 436 no. 4, Harrison Themisp. 304 f. fig. 84). On a base to the left are statues of the Dioskouroi wearingpiloi., chitones (?), and chlamydes (?). Before them is a rectangular altar decoratedwith a boar in relief. Behind the altar a large pedestal carries two liddedamphorae. On a step or low bas
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . rch. Zeit, 1871 xxix. 145 n. 37, Wien. Vorlegebl. iv pi. 9, 8 t^,H. Diitschke Antike Bildwerke in Oberitalien Leipzig 1880 iv. 237 no. 538,A. Fuitwangler in Roscher Lex. Myth. i. ii7of. fig., M. N. Tod—A. J. B. Waceop. cit. p. ii3f. fig. 14, Reinach Rep. Reliefs iii. 436 no. 4, Harrison Themisp. 304 f. fig. 84). On a base to the left are statues of the Dioskouroi wearingpiloi., chitones (?), and chlamydes (?). Before them is a rectangular altar decoratedwith a boar in relief. Behind the altar a large pedestal carries two liddedamphorae. On a step or low base to the right stands a man, clad in chitonand himdtion (?), who holds a phidle (see H. Heydemann Mittheilufigen ausden Antikensammlungen in Ober- und Mittelitalien Halle 1879 p. 5) in his righthand extended over the altar (?). Away to the right is seen a rocky coast forminga bay, in which floats a vessel close to the shore. Near the vessels stern are theheads of two horned animals (oxen ?). On the further side of the bay two sets. Fig. 916. of dokana {supra i. 766 ff.) are set up over a cavern» In the cavern two malefigures are reclining; a third raises his hand with a gesture of surprise orgreeting ; a fourth (?) and possibly a fifth (.??) follow him into the cave. On therocky point to the left of the cave is a cock. And from the dokana a snakemakes its way towards the amphorae. The scene is accompanied by the in-scriptions [AN A]KEIoN below the ^^/^^;zrt and [AJPTENIAAZ APIIJorEN-lAA AloZKoPolZ I EYXAN along the lower edge of the slab in letteringof s. \\ {Corp. inscr. Gr. ii no. 1949). This relief, found in 1710 atAteste {Este) in the country of the Veneti, had perhaps been brought thitherfrom Venice (A. Boeckh in the Corp. inscr. Gr. loc. cit.). It records the gratitudeof one Argenidas, a Spartan (?), who having crossed the sea to Venetia(?) insafety dedicates a thank-offering to the Dioskouroi. It is thus the monumentalcounterpart of Catullus famous poem on h
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