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however, is of doubtful value. F. Cumont1 assumes confusion with
Cautes and Cautopates2. We have also to reckon with the funerary
type of the pensive, torch-bearing Eros common enough in the

Fig. 198.

Graeco-Roman age3. Moreover, Attis, as a god reborn, would be a
favourite emblem of resurrection and, like Nike in a different setting,
peculiarly liable to decorative multiplication. But Haakh has more
to urge in support of his Phrygian twins : he appeals to literary as

bay-tree {Beitrdge zur Landeskmide fur Oesterreich ob der Enns und SalzburgYJwa 1846 v
pi. 3, no. 4, Haakh loc. cit. p. 184 f. with fig.). To these should be added : (6) A tomb-
stone from Andernach, on which each Attis has above his head an Amazonian shield
(J. Klein in the Bonner Jahrbiicher 1884 Lxxvii. 14—37 pi. 1 = my fig. 199, Reinach Rep.
Reliefs ii. 54 no. 1, Corp. inscr. Lett, xiii no. 7684) ; \-]) A tombstone from Bingerbruck,
now at Kreuznach (Reinach Rep. Reliefs ii. 66 no. 1, Corp. inscr. Lai. xiii no. 7507).
Doubtless other examples could be collected.

1 F. Cumont in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. ii. 2251.

- Supra i. 516 n. I.

3 A. Furtwangler in Roscher Lex. Myth. i. 1369 b, O. Waser in Pauly—Wissowa
Real-Enc. vi. 508 f., itifra Append. G sub fin.