Zeus : a study in ancient religion . g. = my fig. 914, Harrison Themis p. 297 fT. fig. 79)-The discovery of this stele confirmed, as M. P. Nilsson notes, the acute surmiseof E. Gerhard Uber Agathoddmon und Bona Dea Berlin 1849 pp. 3, 23 {Gesam-melte akademische Abhandlungen Berlin 1868 ii. 45 with n. 28) that Zeus Ktesioswas probably represented as a snake. Fig. 914. io62 Appendix H (4) The Jars of Zeus Ktesios compared with the Jars of the Dioskouroi. Gerhard further maintained that the jars of Zeus Ktesios were comparable withthose of the Dioskouroi at Sparta (^.^. Brit. Miis. Cat. Coins Pel


Zeus : a study in ancient religion . g. = my fig. 914, Harrison Themis p. 297 fT. fig. 79)-The discovery of this stele confirmed, as M. P. Nilsson notes, the acute surmiseof E. Gerhard Uber Agathoddmon und Bona Dea Berlin 1849 pp. 3, 23 {Gesam-melte akademische Abhandlungen Berlin 1868 ii. 45 with n. 28) that Zeus Ktesioswas probably represented as a snake. Fig. 914. io62 Appendix H (4) The Jars of Zeus Ktesios compared with the Jars of the Dioskouroi. Gerhard further maintained that the jars of Zeus Ktesios were comparable withthose of the Dioskouroi at Sparta (^.^. Brit. Miis. Cat. Coins Peloponnesus p. 122pi. 24, 6 a silver coin of 250—146 with rev. A A a lidded amphora with a snaketwining round it, between the caps of the Dioskouroi surmounted by stars ; in thefield a monogram and A. lb. p. 125 pi. 24, 14 a copper of 146—32 with AA-NIjQN two ^<9r<2^ with snakes twining round them; in the fieldtwo monograms. Fig. 915 = Einzelaufnah??ien no. 1311, E. Cahen in the Bull. Fig. 915. Hell. 1899 xxiii. 599 f. fig. i (Perrot—Chipiez Hist, de PArlvm. 442 f. fig. 216) anarchaic relief— sculpture par silhouettage ou decoupage—at Sparta (M. N. Todand A. J. B. Wace A Catalogue of the Sparta Museum Oxford 1906 p. 191 no. 575fig. 65), which has in the gable an ^gg (that of LedaP.^*) flanked by t\yo snakes,and in the space below the Dioskouroi facing each other with two lidded am-phorae between them. Fig. 916—drawn from a photograph kindly given meby Miss J. E. Harrison—shows the relief of Argenidas in the Museo Lapidarioat Verona (no. 555, height o*40™, breadth 072. Montfaucon Antiquity Ex- % i Zeus Ktesios 1063 plained XxKws. D. Humphreys London 1725 Suppl. i. 103 f. pi. 27 no. i (inexact),S. Maffei Museum Veronense Veronae 1749 p. 47 fig. 7 (bad) with p, 56,A. MichaeHs in the Arch. 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. Fuitwangl


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