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The Mother-goddess and her pdredros 297
Syncretism of this sort can be illustrated by a marble statue of
Hadrianic date (fig. 189)1 found during the winter of 1867—1868 in
the hall of the Dendrophori2 adjoining the Metroion at Ostia3 and
now preserved in the Lateran Museum at Rome4. Attis, a youth
Fig. 189.
of markedly feminine type, is reclining on a rock, whose hard
surface is softened by the spread of his mantle. His left arm is
propped on a bust of Zeus5. His left hand, with a ring on the
ring-finger, holds a lagobolon ; his right, a bunch of corn, fruit, and
lines (two catalectic dimeters, two tripodies, four catalectic dimeters) ; Wilamowitz, as
ten spondaic lines (a dimeter, a catalectic dimeter, four catalectic monometers, four
catalectic dimeters), viz. : " Xttlv v/m.vri<Tco tov "PeiTjs \ ov Kwdtlivwv ctv/jl /36/x/3ois, | ovk afi\Qi 1
'loaiuv | HovprjTwv | /xuktjtcu, | dXX' els $ot/3etay /*tfw j p.ovaav (popfiiyyuv evoi, \ evav, los
lldv, lis Ba/cxei^s, j ojs iroiix7]v \evnwv aarpav. (I should again spell the name of "Attt?s
with -r), not T.)
1 C. L. Yisconti in the Ann. d. Inst. 1869 xli. 224 ff., A/on. d. Inst, ix pi. 8a, 2
( = my fig. 189), A. Rapp in Roscher Lex. Myth. i. 727, P. Decharme in Daremberg—
Saglio Diet. Ant. i. 1688 fig. 2248, F. Cumont in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. ii. 2251,
Reinach Rep. Stat. ii. 472 no. 6. The inscription [Corp. inscr. Lat. xiv no. 38, Uessau
Inscr. Lat. sel. no. 4115) is: Numini Attis C. Cartilius* Euplus ex monitu deae. Length
of marble r6om.
- On the Dendrophori of Italy and the Latin provinces see F. Cumont in Pauly—
Wissowa Real-Enc. v. 216 ff. and the literature there cited.
3 C. L. Visconti in the Ann. d. Inst. 1868 xl. 362 ff., Mon. d. Inst, viii pi. 60 ; id. in
the Ann. d. Inst. 1869 xli. 208 ff., Mon. d. Inst, ix pis. 8 and 8a.
4 W. Helbig Fiihrer durch die offentlichen Sammlungen klassischer Altertiimer in
Rom3 Leipzig 1913 ii. 51 f. no. 1236.
■ C. L. Visconti in the An?i. d. Inst. 1869 xli. 235: ' Giove Ideo'—a plausible
suggestion.
Syncretism of this sort can be illustrated by a marble statue of
Hadrianic date (fig. 189)1 found during the winter of 1867—1868 in
the hall of the Dendrophori2 adjoining the Metroion at Ostia3 and
now preserved in the Lateran Museum at Rome4. Attis, a youth
Fig. 189.
of markedly feminine type, is reclining on a rock, whose hard
surface is softened by the spread of his mantle. His left arm is
propped on a bust of Zeus5. His left hand, with a ring on the
ring-finger, holds a lagobolon ; his right, a bunch of corn, fruit, and
lines (two catalectic dimeters, two tripodies, four catalectic dimeters) ; Wilamowitz, as
ten spondaic lines (a dimeter, a catalectic dimeter, four catalectic monometers, four
catalectic dimeters), viz. : " Xttlv v/m.vri<Tco tov "PeiTjs \ ov Kwdtlivwv ctv/jl /36/x/3ois, | ovk afi\Qi 1
'loaiuv | HovprjTwv | /xuktjtcu, | dXX' els $ot/3etay /*tfw j p.ovaav (popfiiyyuv evoi, \ evav, los
lldv, lis Ba/cxei^s, j ojs iroiix7]v \evnwv aarpav. (I should again spell the name of "Attt?s
with -r), not T.)
1 C. L. Yisconti in the Ann. d. Inst. 1869 xli. 224 ff., A/on. d. Inst, ix pi. 8a, 2
( = my fig. 189), A. Rapp in Roscher Lex. Myth. i. 727, P. Decharme in Daremberg—
Saglio Diet. Ant. i. 1688 fig. 2248, F. Cumont in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. ii. 2251,
Reinach Rep. Stat. ii. 472 no. 6. The inscription [Corp. inscr. Lat. xiv no. 38, Uessau
Inscr. Lat. sel. no. 4115) is: Numini Attis C. Cartilius* Euplus ex monitu deae. Length
of marble r6om.
- On the Dendrophori of Italy and the Latin provinces see F. Cumont in Pauly—
Wissowa Real-Enc. v. 216 ff. and the literature there cited.
3 C. L. Visconti in the Ann. d. Inst. 1868 xl. 362 ff., Mon. d. Inst, viii pi. 60 ; id. in
the Ann. d. Inst. 1869 xli. 208 ff., Mon. d. Inst, ix pis. 8 and 8a.
4 W. Helbig Fiihrer durch die offentlichen Sammlungen klassischer Altertiimer in
Rom3 Leipzig 1913 ii. 51 f. no. 1236.
■ C. L. Visconti in the An?i. d. Inst. 1869 xli. 235: ' Giove Ideo'—a plausible
suggestion.