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There are 36 objects for which Decoration contains → zeus
2006.6.1 Coin of Alexander the Great, Obv: Head of youthful Heracles, wearing a lion-scalp headdress. Rev: Zeus seated on a throne to left, with eagle perched on right hand and sceptre in upraised left hand. Kantharos (or amphora?) under throne.
2007.10.2.197 A God, possibly Zeus, pondering. A bull is in the background
2007.10.2.198 Europa being abducted by the bull (Zeus) the image is cut in half
2007.10.2.283 Profile of a bearded man facing to the right, possibly Zeus with an ancient Greek inscription on his right side.
2007.10.2.328 Bust of Zeus
2007.10.2.335 Profile of a man, possibly Zeus.
2007.10.2.7 Portrait in profile of man (possibly Zeus) facing right
2009.10.1.10 A naked woman sits while an eagle feeds from a bowl in her lap, probably Hebe and Zeus as an eagle. Cast Number - 957
2009.10.1.12 Zeus seated and half clothed, wearing a helmet or sun rays, holding a staff in his right hand and a club in his left. Cast Number - 959
2009.10.2.17 A goat suckling a child (zeus) being watched over by a woman seated and wearing a crown and two large men in capes and hats, holding rocks over the the child. Number 17.
2009.10.2.64 This cast portrays Zeus, with the scepter in his left hand and the thunderbolt in his right one, in the act of driving a chariot and thunderstriking two Giants with snakes for legs, prostrate on the ground, one of whom is brandishing a torch (?).
2009.10.2.67 Zeus is sitting with a sceptre, within a temple. There are 2 columns on either side of Zeus and the pediment is adorned with an eagle and a man riding a horse on the top. Number 67
2009.8.148 A young girl feeding an eagle. Probably Zeus. Cast number: 2
2009.8.149 A young man feeding an eagle. Probably Ganymed and Zeus. Cast number: 3
2009.8.150 An eagle abducting a young man. An amphora lying on the bottom. Zeus kidnapping Ganymed. Cast number: 4
2009.8.151 A man with a beard caressing a young man with wings (?). Ganymed and Zeus. There seems to be an eagle on the right side. Cast number: 5
2009.8.152 A young woman with a cloak around her waist, caressing an eagle. Probably Zeus. Cast number: 6
2009.8.154 A bull with a human face with a beard. Probably Zeus. Cast number: 8
2009.8.155 A woman riding on a bull which has a human face. Probably Zeus abducting Europa. Cast number: 9
2009.8.156 A woman riding on a bull. Zeus abducting Europa. Cast number: 10
2009.8.157 A woman with a swan. Probably Zeus and Leda. Cast number: 11
2009.8.158 A young woman closed in by a swan. Zeus and Leda. Cast number: 12
2009.8.159 A woman lying on her back with a swan on top of her. Leda and Zeus. On the swan Eros. Cast number: 13
2009.8.160 A naked woman lying on her side with a swan next to her. Leda and Zeus. Cast number: 14
2009.8.161 A woman lying on her side with a swan on top of her. Leda and Zeus. Cast number: 15
2009.8.162 A young woman lying on her back on a rock with a swan on top of her. Leda and Zeus. Cast number: 16
2009.8.163 A woman leaning against a rock with a swan. Leda and Zeus. Cast number: 17
2009.8.164 A woman leaning back with a swan. Leda and Zeus. Cast number: 18
2009.8.168 A woman with a spear riding on an eagle, stars are above her head. Eagle is probably Zeus. Cast number: 22
2009.8.169 A woman with a torch sitting on an eagle, holding a head (?) in her other hand. Eagle probably Zeus. Cast number: 23
2009.8.57 A young girl feeding an eagle, probably Zeus. Inscription on the bottom. Cast number 47
2009.8.69 Temple with three gods. Probably Hera (left), Zeus (middle) and Athena, she is sitting on a chair (right). Cast number: 13
29.11.4 Inside black with reserved disk within one black circle in bottom. Reserved band at lip, just inside. Offset rim is black on outside. Two handles are black on the top and reserved underneath. Main design is similar on both sides and shows a seated man between standing women and youths, and a sphinx facing away from the group on eiach side. All the standing figures are facing the seated one: this is perhaps Zeus at the centre of the Pantheon of gods. Footring is black inside and out and the resting surface and lower third of outer edge is reserved. Base within footring is reserved and convex.
L.2005.7.13 Obv: Bearded male head (Zeus?), hair bound with taenia. Rev: Square labyrinth.
L.2012.9.1 The discus contains a frontal, bearded figure of Zeus Sarapis behind an eagle with outstretched wings. A continuous border of volutes, possibly foliate, interspersed with dots with volutes enclosing the round nozzle. Three swastikas evenly spaced around the underside of the lamp.
L.2016.3.28 Obverse: Portrait head of Zeus to the right, bearded and wearing a diadem, reverse: thunderbolt with two letters around the centre.
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