Zeus : a study in ancient religion . er Welten-mantel und Hi?miielszelt Miinchen1910 ii. 410 ff. fig. 48 a relief, ^high, wide, found in situ be-tween two Mithraic altars = C^;^.inscr. Lat. vii nos. 645, 646 : Mithrasbody emerges from the Petra gene-trix (Dessau Inscr. Lat. set. , 4248, 4250, cp. 4249); his armsare broken, but his right hand stillholds a knife, his left hand a lightedtorch), while the lion-headed god,usually described as the MithraicKronos or Aion, but more probablyexplained as Areimanios or Arei-manes, the Mithraists equivalent forAhriman(F. \^^gg^Forerun7ter
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . er Welten-mantel und Hi?miielszelt Miinchen1910 ii. 410 ff. fig. 48 a relief, ^high, wide, found in situ be-tween two Mithraic altars = C^;^.inscr. Lat. vii nos. 645, 646 : Mithrasbody emerges from the Petra gene-trix (Dessau Inscr. Lat. set. , 4248, 4250, cp. 4249); his armsare broken, but his right hand stillholds a knife, his left hand a lightedtorch), while the lion-headed god,usually described as the MithraicKronos or Aion, but more probablyexplained as Areimanios or Arei-manes, the Mithraists equivalent forAhriman(F. \^^gg^Forerun7tersandRivals of Christianity Cambridge1915 ii. 254 f.), appears with a snakecoiled about him, wings attached tohis shoulders and haunches, a scep-tre held in his left hand, and a thun-derbolt on his breast or at his side{ Clarac Mus. de Sculpt, pi. 559%• 1193, Reinach R^p. Stat. i. 296no. 3, F. Lajard Introduction a Vetudedu culte public et des mysteres deMithra eii orient et en Occident Paris1847 pl- 70, C. O. Miiller Denkmdler. Fig. 910. I054 Appendix H der alien Kunst Gottingen 1835 ii- 4- 71^ P^- 75? 9^7? F. Cumont Textes etmonuments figures relatifs aux mysteres de Mithra Bruxelles 1896 ii. 238 68, id. in Roscher Lex. Myth. ii. 3039 fig. i, R. Eisler Weltenmantel undHimmelszelt Miinchen 1910 ii. 412 f. fig. 50 a statue in white marble (°^ high,^ wide at base), found at Ostia in 1797 by the English painter R. Faganand now erected at the entrance of the Vatican Library: the four wings areadorned with symbols of the seasons, viz. the left upper wing with dove andswan, the right upper wing with corn-ears, the right lower wing with grapes,the left lower wing with two palm-trees and reeds; the hands hold keysand a sceptre; the breast is marked with a thunderbolt; the supporting slabshows hammer and tongs to left, caduceus, cock, and pine-cone to right, withan inscription {Corp. inscr. Lat. xiv no. 65 = Dessau Inscr. Lat. set. no. 4212C. Valeri|us Heracles pat
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