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Appendix B

is handing to the other a ram's head. H. von Fritze in the Zeitschr. f. Num. 1901 xxiv.
120 ff. and in the Abh. d. berl. Akad. igio Phil.-hist. Classe Anhang i. 63 f. pi. 6, 1
identifies them with the Kabeiroi, aptly citing a Pergamene decree first published by
B. Schroeder in the Atk. Mitth. 1904 xxix. 152 ff. no. 1 (Dittenberger Orient. Gr. inscr.
sel. no. 764, 6 nvarripiajv Kara tcl Trdrpia roh p.eyd\oLS deois Ka/3etpots k.t.X., ib. 27 Kal t<x
Kpto/3bXia tt)s tlov ecp-qfiwv /j.6Ta.rraidias wpbs dXXr)\ovs eveicev). See further E. Thraemer
Pergamos Leipzig 1888 pp. 263—270 ('Die pergamenischen Kabiren').

The Kabeiroi witnessed the birth of Zeus the lightning-god on the summit of Pergamon,
according to an oracle of Apollon (not Apollon Tpvveios as F. G. Welcker Sylloge epi-
grammatum Graecorum'2' Bonnae 1828 p. 231 and A. Boeckh on Corp. inscr. Gr. ii no.
3538 supposed, nor Apollon ~X.pr)<TTripios of Aigai as M. Frankel op. cit. ii. 239 thought
probable, but Apollon KXdpios as C. Picard in the Bull. Corr. Hell. 1922 xlvi. 190 ff. and
in his E\phese et Claras Paris 1922 pp. 461 n. 4, 673 has definitely proved),, which bade
the Pergamenes, if they would be rid of a plague (that of 166 A.D. (Amm. Marc. 23. 6.
24)), divide their epheboi into four groups, chant hymns to Zeus, Dionysos, Athena, and
Asklepios, and then for seven days offer thighs on the altars of the same deities, sacrificing
a two-year-old heifer to Athena, a three-year-old ox to Zeus, to Zeus Bdycxos ( = Zeus
2a/3d£io? : supra p. 287 n. 2), and to Asklepios, and feasting themselves on bull's flesh
{Corp. inscr. Gr. ii no. 3538 = M. Frankel op. cit. ii. 239^ = Kaibel Epigr. Gr. no. 1035
= Cougny Anth. Pal. Append. 6. 172). The oracle begins:

TyXecplbais, ot Ti-qvl irXeov KpoviSrji (BaatXrii

e£ dWwv Tie<TKbp.evoi levdpavrlda yaiav

vaiowiv Kal Tirjvbs epiafxapdyoLO yevedXrji

i)fj.ev 'AdrivaiTji ttoXe/xi;5okwl dTpvTihvrji

i)db At(w)v^crwi XadiKrjbh <pvo~i£wLUi

rf]5£ Kal eirjT7)pi vba(w)v Wairjovi XvypQv

oIcfl Trap Ovpavov vies idrjrjaavro Kd/3e(poi

TrpuiToi Uepya/xirjs virep d/c(pt)os d(cr)re(p)o(Tr'i]T)ri(v)

TiKTOjxevov Ala, pvr\jpu>Lr\v ore (7<x)<xr(epa) Xva{ev)- k.t.X.

The later passage concerning the sacrifices to the four gods has been quoted supra p. 287
n. 2. Of the hymns prescribed one only, that to Zeus, has survived on a fragmentary stile
of white marble found on the western terrace of the Akropolis. The text, which is sur-
mounted by a pediment containing reliefs of a phidle with two shield-like ornaments, is
thus restored by M. Frankel op. cit. ii. 237 ff. no. 324:

\dy\adr\i t6xvl-

[OvXv/j.ttolo] fieriOTrov, &Kp7]v TeiT7)vi5a, vaiwv,

[u Tied 5£<nroTa,] xcupe. Xira^ofiivwix. iroXLTiTeuv

[kXv6l, varep /ijaK&puv re Kal drpvy^ruv dvdpunrwv,
5 [\a/j.7TpQi ovpav]ir)v etpeiruv ltvv aiyXyjeaffav,

[drj/XLoepye /3tou] Trecparia/xeve aots virb <pvXoism

[tu>v dyaOQv ydp~\ (pavXa biaKpeivas irdpos vXrjs

{irdaiv e'dwKas x]prjaLi> eirdpKiov rjfxep'ioicnv,

[vel/xas Kal yaldv] re iroXvKKvarbv re ddXaaaav,
10 [aldepa Kal 7rd]vT aX\a, rd err) woirjcraTo fxrjTLS.

[£X8£ ere k\iji^o\v(Ti, /xaKap, fxaKap, etXaos rjixiv

Kal irTb\\iv iduvo\vaiv dp.u/J.oo~iv Uepya/J-Lbaicriv,

i\6e avv irjTTjpi de&jj. IIcutjopi /cXeiTuk

deatreairiv 'Tyieiav es aYXad Sci/xar' dyovTL
15 'EiivofJ.irji re Kal ^varaatrji Xiiraprn t WLpr)v7)l

"Uprjc re ^vyirji, dXbx<i> o~£o Kvbrjetra'ijL,

Kal QifuSi dpxiey]bvo)i, Trpov<priTlSi KaprepofiouXwi,

Kal ydfiov [dfo]u.£vt}l yXavKLOwibi ^piToyeveirn

/c[a]t \jraiSwv /j.ed]eovTi Si.aKrbpui. 'Ep/xduivi
20 [/cai Moipcus KXvjj.£\v7)t.ffiv dpLv/xocriv 'Kb\p-q<7T]dais.