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298 The Mother-goddess and her pdredros
flowers. His head, twined with a garland of pine-cones, almonds,
pomegranates, poppy-heads, and flowers, wears a Phrygian cap,
which is encircled below by five rays (restored in their ancient
holes) and embellished above by a crescent moon and two up-
standing ears of corn. The whole figure with its air of pensive
melancholy, not to say unmanly slackness, aptly embodies the
Graeco-Roman conception of Attis. Particular traits and adjuncts
recall other deities. The crescent is that of Men. The hair, with
its long side-curls and a ribbon across the brow, is reminiscent of
Fig. 190.
Dionysos. The attitude of graceful repose would suit Adonis1. And,
lest the lines should degenerate into weakness, we have a rigid
framework formed by the bearded bust and the underlying rock—
a reminder that Attis after all was akin to the great powers of
nature, Zeus and Kybele, the sky-father and the mountain-mother.
Zeus, as husband of Kybele2, appears on other monuments of
the same cult. From the Metroion at Ostia came also a votive
marble basket (fig. 190)3, the lid of which has a handle shaped like
a cock in obvious reference to the Gallus or emasculated priest of
1 Cp. Theokr. 15. 84 ff., 127 ff.
- Ioul. or. 5 p. 166 A f. Ti's ovv r) ~SlrjTrip tQ>v dewv;...i) Kai reKovao. Kai avvoiKovaa
p.eyd\u> Ad Beds inroardaa fieydXij fierd rbv p.eyav Kai ai/v rip p.eyd\ip 8r)txiovpy<2, r) Trdarjs
p,ev Kvpia farjs, Trdarjs 8e yeveaeios atria, 17 paara p.ev eTureXovaa ra Troiovp.eva, yevvQ<ra Se
5i%a rrddovs Kai 5rjfj.iovpyovo~a ra ovra jtiera tov warpos' avrrj Kai irapdevos afXTjTwp Kai Aids
avvduiKos Kai p.r)t7)p deQv ovtus ovaa Trdvrwv.
3 C. L. Visconti in the Ann. d. Inst. 1869 xli. -240 ff., Mon. d. Inst, ix pi. 8a, ia, ib
( = my fig. 190), P. Decharme in Daremberg—Saglio Diet. Ant. i. [688 fig. 2249, Frazer
flowers. His head, twined with a garland of pine-cones, almonds,
pomegranates, poppy-heads, and flowers, wears a Phrygian cap,
which is encircled below by five rays (restored in their ancient
holes) and embellished above by a crescent moon and two up-
standing ears of corn. The whole figure with its air of pensive
melancholy, not to say unmanly slackness, aptly embodies the
Graeco-Roman conception of Attis. Particular traits and adjuncts
recall other deities. The crescent is that of Men. The hair, with
its long side-curls and a ribbon across the brow, is reminiscent of
Fig. 190.
Dionysos. The attitude of graceful repose would suit Adonis1. And,
lest the lines should degenerate into weakness, we have a rigid
framework formed by the bearded bust and the underlying rock—
a reminder that Attis after all was akin to the great powers of
nature, Zeus and Kybele, the sky-father and the mountain-mother.
Zeus, as husband of Kybele2, appears on other monuments of
the same cult. From the Metroion at Ostia came also a votive
marble basket (fig. 190)3, the lid of which has a handle shaped like
a cock in obvious reference to the Gallus or emasculated priest of
1 Cp. Theokr. 15. 84 ff., 127 ff.
- Ioul. or. 5 p. 166 A f. Ti's ovv r) ~SlrjTrip tQ>v dewv;...i) Kai reKovao. Kai avvoiKovaa
p.eyd\u> Ad Beds inroardaa fieydXij fierd rbv p.eyav Kai ai/v rip p.eyd\ip 8r)txiovpy<2, r) Trdarjs
p,ev Kvpia farjs, Trdarjs 8e yeveaeios atria, 17 paara p.ev eTureXovaa ra Troiovp.eva, yevvQ<ra Se
5i%a rrddovs Kai 5rjfj.iovpyovo~a ra ovra jtiera tov warpos' avrrj Kai irapdevos afXTjTwp Kai Aids
avvduiKos Kai p.r)t7)p deQv ovtus ovaa Trdvrwv.
3 C. L. Visconti in the Ann. d. Inst. 1869 xli. -240 ff., Mon. d. Inst, ix pi. 8a, ia, ib
( = my fig. 190), P. Decharme in Daremberg—Saglio Diet. Ant. i. [688 fig. 2249, Frazer