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no Dionysiac traits in the cult of Zeus

in 1900 recognised these youths as the Kabeiroi wearing their
Samothracian rings: their loin-cloths too are clearly the Samo-
thracian bands. Kern further adduced another relief, which he had

seen in 1893 at Uzumlil, a village near Mag-
nesia on the Maiandros : this represented
four nude males, each carrying a hammer
on the right shoulder and moving to the
left, led by a fifth, draped and hammerless1.
A. Conze2 and O. Puchstein3 have made it
probable that yet another Kabeiros swing-
ing a double-axe or hammer is to be seen
in the nude bearded god attacking a
bovine giant on the southern frieze of the
great Pergamene altar4. At Pergamon, as
Puchstein observes, the Kabeiroi were said

to have witnessed the birth of Zeus5. Their
Fig. 83.

general resemblance to the Cretan Kouretes
is, in fact, beyond dispute ; and we are free to contend that in
the district of Olympos the Korybantes and Kabeiroi were es-
sentially Curetic.

Their cult was flourishing in the third Christian century.
Cyprian, bishop of Antioch, was as a youth of fifteen initiated
for forty days on Mount Olympos by seven hierophants into
certain obscure mysteries6. In this home of the gods he was
taught the meaning of musical notes and sounds. He had a vision
of tree-trunks and herbs of divine potency. He witnessed the

1 O. Kern in the Strena Helbigiana Lipsiae 1900 p. 158 f. He cp. the coins of
Thessalonike, a bronze at Rumeli-Hissar, and the frieze of the Pergamene altar.

2 A. Conze in the Sitzungsber. d. Akad. d. Wiss. Berlin 1881 p. 275.

3 O. Puchstein ib. 1889 p. 330 f.

4 Pergamon iii. 2. 20 f. fig. 1, 148 f., pi. 3, Die Skulpturen des Pergamon-Mttseums in
Photographien Berlin 1903 ph 7, Overbeck Gr. P/asti/e4 ii. 277.

5 Corp. inscr. Gr. ii no. 3538, 17 ff., infra Append. B Mysia.

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