Featured Article Quiz #135
Sursock bronze
#1 What is the Sursock bronze (Sursock statuette) depicted as?
A gilded bronze sculpture of Jupiter Heliopolitanus
A gilded bronze sculpture of the Egyptian goddess Isis
A bronze sculpture of the Greek hero Heracles
#2 Which of the following best describes Jupiter Heliopolitanus’s origins according to the text?
It formed through merging Canaanite Baal-Hadad worship with later solar and Roman identifications
It was originally purely Egyptian with no later Semitic or Roman influence
It began as a fully developed Greek cult before any Canaanite influence
#3 According to the text, how are the two bulls depicted in the Sursock statuette?
As young bulls, suggested by underdeveloped horns
As old bulls with worn-down horns
As bulls replaced by lions with jeweled manes