Zeus : a study in ancient religion . os {Inscr. Gr. Pelop. i no. 620, 4 = Kaibel Epigr. Gr. no. 465. 8 =Cougny Anth. Pal. Append. 2. 286. 8 cited supra p. 878 n. o no. (4)). ? I pass by Epidauros, because the evidence for a cult of Zeus Meilichios in that townis small—in fact depends on the suggested interpretation of a single letter. See J. Baunack*Zu den Inschriften aus Epidauros in Philologus 1895 liv. 37 : Nr. 125 h. bei K. [= Fouilles dEpidaure Athenes 1893 p. 57] nur A^poStras ixlXlxIols. B1. ( 123) [ = C. Blinkenberg Asklepios ogiians fraender i Hieron vedEpidauros Kob
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . os {Inscr. Gr. Pelop. i no. 620, 4 = Kaibel Epigr. Gr. no. 465. 8 =Cougny Anth. Pal. Append. 2. 286. 8 cited supra p. 878 n. o no. (4)). ? I pass by Epidauros, because the evidence for a cult of Zeus Meilichios in that townis small—in fact depends on the suggested interpretation of a single letter. See J. Baunack*Zu den Inschriften aus Epidauros in Philologus 1895 liv. 37 : Nr. 125 h. bei K. [= Fouilles dEpidaure Athenes 1893 p. 57] nur A^poStras ixlXlxIols. B1. ( 123) [ = C. Blinkenberg Asklepios ogiians fraender i Hieron vedEpidauros Kobenhavn1893 p. 123 no. 7] merkt darauf einen Zwischenraum von etwa 2 Zeichen an und hieraufein A, was er ansprechend als den Anfang einer zweiten Inschrift A[t6s \ erklart,Inscr. Gr. Pelop. i no. 1272 in letters of s. iii A4>P0AITAZMI AIXIA]E| |z5Ts =Acppodiras MtXtxtas. At[6s MtXtxiou]. ^ Paus. 2. 9. 6 cited supra i. 520 n. 2. I do not, of course, mean to imply that the Sicyonians were averse from the Zeus-types. Zeus Meilichios ii45 It is tempting to conjecture that his pyramid betokened a buried king. For tombsof pyramidal form occur sporadically from Egypt to Italy ^ ; and, if Eumelos of later art. A third brass of Geta shows Zeus seated with q. phidle in his right hand, asceptre in his left (Rasche Lex. Num. viii. 912, Imhoof-Blumerand P. Gardner Nurn. Coinm. Paus, i. 29). A copper of Caracalla (?)has CI KVH N Zeus standing to the left, naked, with thunder-bolt in right hand, sceptre in left {Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Pelopon-nesus p. 55, Imhoof-Blumer and P. Gardner op. cit. \. 29 pi. H,10 = my fig. 965): cp. the obverse type of a ^?/aj-/-autonomous coinin Numisniata antiqiia in tres partes divisa, collegit ThomasPembrochiK et Montis Gomerici comes Londinii 1746 ii pi. 28,II, Rasche Lex. Num. viii. 910 Zeus standing, naked, with Nike Yw. 06=;. in his right hand and a sceptre in his left. Imhoof-Blumer and P. Gardner loc. cit. rightly see in the British Museu
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