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Cook, Arthur B.
Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 3,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (earthquake, clouds, wind, dew, rain, meteorits): Text and notes — Cambridge, 1940

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Kybele and meteorites

Claudia standing statue-like1 on a plinth as she draws the ship by
her girdle. The sacred stone is not to be seen, unless we can
identify it with the small object on deck in front of the seated
goddess2.

Once received at Rome the black stone of Kybele was treated
with exceptional honours. A. Audin3 even contends that it was
regarded as a second Pallddion imported to replace the Trojan
original, whose protective power would not last beyond the fated
limit of a thousand years4. The stone was housed at first in the
temple of Victory on the Palatine6, and subsequently in a temple
of its own dedicated to the Magna Mater at the top of the Scalae

Philologus 1893 Iii. 581 f. thought that it was a Greek freedwoman's indifferent Latin
for pro salute Navis Salviae.

A replica of this inscription, brought from Rome to Verona (no. 131), is given in
F. S. Maffei Museum Veronense Veronae 1749 p. xc no. 1, Orelli Inscr. Lat. sel. no. 1906,
Corp. inscr. Lat. vi no. 493, Dessau Inscr. Lat. sel. no. 4097 Navi Salviae | et Matri deu
d. d. I Claudia Sinty|[che]____

A third inscription, likewise found at Rome and relating to the same cult, is given
in Orelli Inscr. Lat. sel. no. 2403 ('Velitris'), Corp. inscr. Lat. vi no. 494, Wilmanns
Ex. inscr. Lat. no. 106, Dessau Inscr. Lat. sel. no. 4098 Matri deum | et' Navi Salvia?
Q. Nunnius | Telephus mag. | col. culto. eius | d. s. d. d. ( = mag(ister) col(legii) culto-
(rum) eius d(e) s(uo) d(onum) d(edit)).

Maffei supposed that Navisalviae was a single word designating the divinised Claudia
as ' Ship-saving' on account of her exploit. But Orelli with far greater probability took
Navi Salviae to mean 'the Ship Salvia? associated in cult with the goddess whom she
carried. L. Bloch loc. cit. points out that a trireme in the praetorian fleet at Misenum was
actually called Salvia (E. Ferrero L'ordinamento delle annate romane Torino 1878 p. 29)1
being presumably a namesake of Kybele's well-omened vessel. A ship built with timber
from the pine-woods of Mt Ide (Ov. fast. 4. 273 f.) was a fitting vehicle for the Mater
Idaea (supra ii. 950 n. o).

1 Ioul. or. 5 p. 209 Hertlein speaks of these miracles as Kotvy fiiv vwb TrXtlaTf"1
lffToptoypd<f>(i}i> avaypacpofieva, aa)£6p.€i>a de Kai iiri xaX/cuiz' eiKOVWV iv ttj KpaTLffTQ KCt
0eo<pi\ei "Pwp.ri. A statue of Claudia in the vestibule of the temple of the Magna Mater 0"
the Palatine survived two conflagrations of that edifice, in in B.C. and 3 A.D. (Val.
1.8. 11, Tac. ann. 4. 64).

2 Not impossibly Claudia would be conceived as attaching her girdle to the sacrei
stone of the goddess, much as the Ephesians at the time of Kroisos' invasion bound their
gates and walls by cords to the columns of Artemis' temple (Ail. var. hist. 3. 26), or 2s
Kylon and his men fastened a braided thread to the statue of Athena on the Akropolis
Athens (Plout. v. Sol. 12). The object in each case was to maintain close contact wit
the goddess. Cp. supra ii. 408 and perhaps ii. 657 figs. 591—593.

3 A. Audin 'Le Palladium de Rome' in the Rev. Arch. 1929 ii. 46—57 (a ver^
venturesome article).

4 Herald, frag. 12 By water, 92 Diels ap. Plout. de Pyth. or. 6 2i/3uXXa 5e p.aivo^'f
GTbfxcLTL Kad' 'Hpa/cXeiroc ayiXaara Kai aKaXkwirtaTa <ca! dp.ipi(TTa <p6eyyop.ivri -^Chloiv &
e^iKvehai ryj (pwvrj Std tov 6e6v. Audin reckons that 1000 years from the fall of

(1184 B.C.), when Kassandra the Trojan Sibyl announced the migration of her country'1^
to Rome, would expire in 184 B.C. The importation of the Mater Idaea in 2051 at
advice of the Sibylline books, might secure a new lease of life for the state!
0 Liv. 29. 14.
 
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