goo The stone of Elagabalos
often supposed to have fallen from the sky1. It is therefore
tempting to compare this humanised pounder with the 1 Zeus-
fallen' image of Artemis Ephesia2. And all the more so, when we
learn that, by an impressive coincidence, the pounder actually came
from Ephesos3.
Fig. 735- Fig. 736. Fig. 737.
(d) The stone of Elagabalos.
Akin to the stone of Kybele at Pessinous in Phrygia was the
stone of Elagabalos the god of Emesa in Syria4. This too was
a ' Zeus-fallen ' stone, of large size, conical shape, and black colou1"
It was marked with certain small projections and impressions»
1 Supra ii. 505 ff. 2 Supra ii. 963 n. o.
3 It was obtained by Sir William Ridgeway, through Mr H. Lawson of the consul*'
service at Smyrna, together with a miscellaneous lot of arrow- heads etc. from Ephes^J
Sir William acutely detected its true character and had intended some day to pub^ ,
it as a good example of an aniconic deity. On his death it was passed on to me _J
Dr J. A. Venn, President of Queens', and Mrs Venn, Sir William's daughter, to v.'l>°
I am greatly indebted for this opportunity of publishing a relic of rare interest. , ^
4 On whom see F. Lenormant 'Sol Elagabalus' in the Revue de I'histoire des reW ^
1881 iii. 310—322, id. in Daremberg—Saglio Diet. Ant. ii. 529—531 with figs. 2^:;J.ejl
E. Meyer in Roscher Lex. Myth. i. 1229—1231 with the same two figs, ('der erste ^
des Wortes ist jedenfalls das syrische eldh "Gott," der zweite wahrscheinlich % ^
"Berg," also "Berggott"), F. Cumont in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. v. 2219 (15
(' Man hat auch an El-gebal deus formans, deus creator gedacht (Reville La rehg- ^
les Sev. 243 f.). Lenormant setzte den zweiten Teil vielmehr mit dem babyl°nis s
Gibil in Zusammenhang und sah in E. einen Feuergott'), Wissowa Rel. Kult. f1
pp. 89 f., 365 f.
often supposed to have fallen from the sky1. It is therefore
tempting to compare this humanised pounder with the 1 Zeus-
fallen' image of Artemis Ephesia2. And all the more so, when we
learn that, by an impressive coincidence, the pounder actually came
from Ephesos3.
Fig. 735- Fig. 736. Fig. 737.
(d) The stone of Elagabalos.
Akin to the stone of Kybele at Pessinous in Phrygia was the
stone of Elagabalos the god of Emesa in Syria4. This too was
a ' Zeus-fallen ' stone, of large size, conical shape, and black colou1"
It was marked with certain small projections and impressions»
1 Supra ii. 505 ff. 2 Supra ii. 963 n. o.
3 It was obtained by Sir William Ridgeway, through Mr H. Lawson of the consul*'
service at Smyrna, together with a miscellaneous lot of arrow- heads etc. from Ephes^J
Sir William acutely detected its true character and had intended some day to pub^ ,
it as a good example of an aniconic deity. On his death it was passed on to me _J
Dr J. A. Venn, President of Queens', and Mrs Venn, Sir William's daughter, to v.'l>°
I am greatly indebted for this opportunity of publishing a relic of rare interest. , ^
4 On whom see F. Lenormant 'Sol Elagabalus' in the Revue de I'histoire des reW ^
1881 iii. 310—322, id. in Daremberg—Saglio Diet. Ant. ii. 529—531 with figs. 2^:;J.ejl
E. Meyer in Roscher Lex. Myth. i. 1229—1231 with the same two figs, ('der erste ^
des Wortes ist jedenfalls das syrische eldh "Gott," der zweite wahrscheinlich % ^
"Berg," also "Berggott"), F. Cumont in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. v. 2219 (15
(' Man hat auch an El-gebal deus formans, deus creator gedacht (Reville La rehg- ^
les Sev. 243 f.). Lenormant setzte den zweiten Teil vielmehr mit dem babyl°nis s
Gibil in Zusammenhang und sah in E. einen Feuergott'), Wissowa Rel. Kult. f1
pp. 89 f., 365 f.