Zeus : a study in ancient religion . vi ) laudatio S. Barnabae Apost. i. 13 in the Acta Sanctorum edd. 1698 Junius ii. 440 D X670S 7dp r\\Q^v els rj/J-ds dirb yepouTwv 6ti 6 to Kepd/JiioyjSacrrdfwj rod fJSaros, (p KaraKoXovdijaai Trpo<T€Ta^ev 6 Kvpios rots jxadrjTdLS, Mctp/cos ^v 6 vibsTTJs fMUKapiai Ma/)ias, Severus Bishop of El-Eschmounein in Upper Egypt History of thePatriarchs of the Coptic Church of Alexandria trans. B. T. A. Evelts Paris 1907 i. i p. 17in the Patrologia Orientalis i. 139 And he {sc. Mark) was among the servants who pouredout the water which our


Zeus : a study in ancient religion . vi ) laudatio S. Barnabae Apost. i. 13 in the Acta Sanctorum edd. 1698 Junius ii. 440 D X670S 7dp r\\Q^v els rj/J-ds dirb yepouTwv 6ti 6 to Kepd/JiioyjSacrrdfwj rod fJSaros, (p KaraKoXovdijaai Trpo<T€Ta^ev 6 Kvpios rots jxadrjTdLS, Mctp/cos ^v 6 vibsTTJs fMUKapiai Ma/)ias, Severus Bishop of El-Eschmounein in Upper Egypt History of thePatriarchs of the Coptic Church of Alexandria trans. B. T. A. Evelts Paris 1907 i. i p. 17in the Patrologia Orientalis i. 139 And he {sc. Mark) was among the servants who pouredout the water which our Lord turned into wine, at the marriage of Cana in Galilee. And itwas he who carried the jar of water into the house of Simon the Cyrenian, at the time ofthe sacramental Supper); and on his chair is scratched a water-jar. St Matthew sat at thereceipt of custom; his graffito is an archway with a circle above it, presumably the city-gate with a coin in evidence. St Luke, as a physician, has for his emblem an obvious Zeus Phtlios I20I. C. 11. 76 I202 Appendix N To determine the date of the chalice is a task of primary importance. Soundcriticism will rely, not on any a priori notions as to what the early Church couldor could not have done, but on definite considerations of shape, technique^ style,and subject-Now the outer shell or container is essentially an ovoid bowl, withouthandles, supported on a round knop with a low and narrow foot-stand. A cupso constructed suffers from one obvious defect. It is top-heavy and would beeasily upset. Such a shape could hardly have been popular for long it. Bronze coins of uncertain denomination struck by Simon Maccabaeusin 136/5 have for reverse type a closely similar chalice with knop, shortstem, and small foot^. But silver shekels and half-shekels dating from the FirstRevolt of the Jews in 66/7—70 have for obverse type a chalice with smallerknop, longer stem, and broader foot^. Coins of the Second Revolt in 132—


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