The stone of Dousares
911
Souidas' attempt to explain Dousares as a form of Ares1 is, of
course, a piece of puerile etymology, though Cumont2 may be
right in thinking that the same whimsy gave rise to the genitive
Dousdreos found earlier in inscriptions3. When viticulture was
introduced into Arabia, Dousares as principal god of the country
may have taken it under his protection: Isidoros of Charax on the
Tigris, a geographer of s. i A.D.4, made Dousares a Nabataean name
a Fig. 767. b
the 'niveau syro-phenicien' at Laodikeia ad Libanum (Qadesh) and regarded by the
ncier, not as an unfinished statue, but as the schematic figure of a bearded deity
' , Pezard Qadesh, mission archiologique a Tell Nebi Mend 1921—1922 (Haut-commis-
ariat de la Republique francaise en Syrie et au Liban. Service des antiquites et des
eaux-arts. Bibliotheque archeologique et historique T. xv) Paris 1931 p. 40 f. pi. 29
"g-^ ( = my fig. 767, a, b)).
Supra p. 907. 2 jr. Cumont in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. v. 1867.
t Lebas—Waddington Asie Mineure iii nos. 2023 {Milah-es-Sarrar) Jfd7os Xaipov |
speuj 6eou Aov\<rdpeos i-rrli-qire \ rbv fiaifibv ex t\Siv ISluiv erei yd' (59 of the Arabian era
~ l64/5 A.D.), 2312 (Soneida, Soada) [...........]a0os M[-■] I [---- kpeln Ao]wi£/>eos
0 ^ I t..........]er avLKijTov j [dy^urrj'jaev.
F. H. Weissbach in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. ix. 2064 ff.
911
Souidas' attempt to explain Dousares as a form of Ares1 is, of
course, a piece of puerile etymology, though Cumont2 may be
right in thinking that the same whimsy gave rise to the genitive
Dousdreos found earlier in inscriptions3. When viticulture was
introduced into Arabia, Dousares as principal god of the country
may have taken it under his protection: Isidoros of Charax on the
Tigris, a geographer of s. i A.D.4, made Dousares a Nabataean name
a Fig. 767. b
the 'niveau syro-phenicien' at Laodikeia ad Libanum (Qadesh) and regarded by the
ncier, not as an unfinished statue, but as the schematic figure of a bearded deity
' , Pezard Qadesh, mission archiologique a Tell Nebi Mend 1921—1922 (Haut-commis-
ariat de la Republique francaise en Syrie et au Liban. Service des antiquites et des
eaux-arts. Bibliotheque archeologique et historique T. xv) Paris 1931 p. 40 f. pi. 29
"g-^ ( = my fig. 767, a, b)).
Supra p. 907. 2 jr. Cumont in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. v. 1867.
t Lebas—Waddington Asie Mineure iii nos. 2023 {Milah-es-Sarrar) Jfd7os Xaipov |
speuj 6eou Aov\<rdpeos i-rrli-qire \ rbv fiaifibv ex t\Siv ISluiv erei yd' (59 of the Arabian era
~ l64/5 A.D.), 2312 (Soneida, Soada) [...........]a0os M[-■] I [---- kpeln Ao]wi£/>eos
0 ^ I t..........]er avLKijTov j [dy^urrj'jaev.
F. H. Weissbach in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. ix. 2064 ff.