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282 Dios and Dios Nysos
compared with Zeus DiSnysos (fig. 178) of north-eastern Thrace1,
Fig. 178.
with Zeus Sabdzios whose worship radiated from Phrygia (pi. xix)2,
[I. 3), which made people think that the Jews worshipped Liber Pater (Tac. hist. 5. 5).
See further Boetticher Baumkultus pp. 212—214 (' Metallene Baume') and G. W. Elderkin
in the Am. Journ. Arch. 1917 xxi. 407 f. (' The Vine of Pythios and Andocides'). Note
also Inscr. Gr. Deli ii no. 161 B 44 aju.ire\os XPV<TV &<tto.tos in an inventory of 279/280 B.C.
11 Galen, de aliment, fo.cult. 1. 13 (vi. 515 Kiihn) notes that the grain called fcbirvpov
was grown at Dorylai (sic) in Phrygia.
1 G. Kazarow in the Jahrb. d. kais. deutsch. arch. Inst. 1915 xxx Arch. Anz. pp. 87—
89 fig. 1 ( = my fig. 178) publishes a marble base (o'55mhigh, o'65m broad) of late Roman
date, from Malko-Tirnovo in the Bulgarian territory of Btwgas, inscribed with a dedica-
tion 6ei2 Ad Aiovutjip by the priest of a BaKxetov (Am. Journ. Arch. 1916 xx. 228). The
text runs : ..ievov iepevs BaK^'of \jbv P^/uov dvedrjKa dew Ad Aio[vv]\au virep eavrov /ecu
tQv tI[kv]\wv fiov (svvfxvaruiv irepi \ awrripias. The interest and importance of the find made
in this locality is great. Malko-Tirnovo is within easy reach of Viza, the ancient Bizye,
chief town of the Thracian Astai.
2 Supra i. 390 ff. Thanks to the courtesy of Mr W. H. Buckler, I am enabled to
supplement my previous account by publishing a new and important stele, which he has
lately presented to the British Museum. PI. xix is from a photograph by Mr R. B. Fleming.
Mr Buckler writes: 'This small stele, in good preservation except for the missing base,
was bought for 20 francs at the bazaar in Constantinople in June, 1914, from a dealer who
professed to know nothing of its origin. It then consisted of two closely fitting fragments,
divided by a line of breakage passing through the eagle's neck and down along the front
of the horse's fore leg. The lower part of the stele appeared to have recently been
chiselled away ; before restoration the lower edge, showing the coarse-grained bluish
marble, of a kind common in Western Asia Minor, looked quite freshly cut. The inscrip-
tion was then intact : Ei/ruxos Ai 2a/3afei« | /car' ovipov xa-?L<JT"hPLOV■ This inscription
(A, 5!) might be as early as 1st century B.C., but of course dating from such indica-
tions is pretty uncertain. On the journey to London the, larger fragment was broken in
compared with Zeus DiSnysos (fig. 178) of north-eastern Thrace1,
Fig. 178.
with Zeus Sabdzios whose worship radiated from Phrygia (pi. xix)2,
[I. 3), which made people think that the Jews worshipped Liber Pater (Tac. hist. 5. 5).
See further Boetticher Baumkultus pp. 212—214 (' Metallene Baume') and G. W. Elderkin
in the Am. Journ. Arch. 1917 xxi. 407 f. (' The Vine of Pythios and Andocides'). Note
also Inscr. Gr. Deli ii no. 161 B 44 aju.ire\os XPV<TV &<tto.tos in an inventory of 279/280 B.C.
11 Galen, de aliment, fo.cult. 1. 13 (vi. 515 Kiihn) notes that the grain called fcbirvpov
was grown at Dorylai (sic) in Phrygia.
1 G. Kazarow in the Jahrb. d. kais. deutsch. arch. Inst. 1915 xxx Arch. Anz. pp. 87—
89 fig. 1 ( = my fig. 178) publishes a marble base (o'55mhigh, o'65m broad) of late Roman
date, from Malko-Tirnovo in the Bulgarian territory of Btwgas, inscribed with a dedica-
tion 6ei2 Ad Aiovutjip by the priest of a BaKxetov (Am. Journ. Arch. 1916 xx. 228). The
text runs : ..ievov iepevs BaK^'of \jbv P^/uov dvedrjKa dew Ad Aio[vv]\au virep eavrov /ecu
tQv tI[kv]\wv fiov (svvfxvaruiv irepi \ awrripias. The interest and importance of the find made
in this locality is great. Malko-Tirnovo is within easy reach of Viza, the ancient Bizye,
chief town of the Thracian Astai.
2 Supra i. 390 ff. Thanks to the courtesy of Mr W. H. Buckler, I am enabled to
supplement my previous account by publishing a new and important stele, which he has
lately presented to the British Museum. PI. xix is from a photograph by Mr R. B. Fleming.
Mr Buckler writes: 'This small stele, in good preservation except for the missing base,
was bought for 20 francs at the bazaar in Constantinople in June, 1914, from a dealer who
professed to know nothing of its origin. It then consisted of two closely fitting fragments,
divided by a line of breakage passing through the eagle's neck and down along the front
of the horse's fore leg. The lower part of the stele appeared to have recently been
chiselled away ; before restoration the lower edge, showing the coarse-grained bluish
marble, of a kind common in Western Asia Minor, looked quite freshly cut. The inscrip-
tion was then intact : Ei/ruxos Ai 2a/3afei« | /car' ovipov xa-?L<JT"hPLOV■ This inscription
(A, 5!) might be as early as 1st century B.C., but of course dating from such indica-
tions is pretty uncertain. On the journey to London the, larger fragment was broken in