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Hancarville, Pierre François Hugues d'
Antiquités étrusques, grecques et romaines tirées du cabinet de M. Hamilton envoyé extraordinaire de S. M. Britannique à la Cour de Naples (Band 1) — Florenz, 1801 [Cicognara, 2490-1]

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( Rotundus Dont mus ) This fame God was represented at Palmyra with
rajs about his head as may be feen upon a Bafs relief found in the
ruins- of that Town , upon which from the account of Selden, (5) they had
cut two figures of the Sun with the Greek infcription Aglibel and
Malacbel Gods of the Countty. This shews us the progrefs of Scul-
pture , a round ftone the Symbol of the Disk of the Sun marked at
firfi the Object of the Peoples Cult, they reprefented afterwards an un~
couth head upon this fame ftone, and perhaps that of a circular form
and which at Rome ' they call the mouth of truth , may be nothing
more than the God Agli-Baal ; / am alfo willing to believe that thofe
heads of bron%e engraved upon a rounded furface with the tongue out
of the mouth , exaftly the fame as are to be feen upon the Medals
of Abyde and Paws, and even upon fome of the Carthaginian Coin ,
reprefented the Agli-Baal. This God however is the fame as the Abelen
of the Eafterns, whofe name was changed by the Greeks into that of
Apollo, in whofe form, when the Arts were more advanced they after-
wards reprefented the Sun .

The Greeks took this cult of Stones, Trees and Pillars from AJiay
and Paufanias tells us (6) that formerly Stones in Greece received divine ho-
nors , and that even, the moft ill shapen ones were the moft revered',
thefe Bœtyles afterwards bore the names of the Gods, whom, from the
account of Herodotus (7) the Greeks borrowed from Egypt, from the Pe-
Jafgians a People originally from Afia, and even from the Lybians. In
the reign of Adrian, were fill to be feen at Thebes (8) at Argos and at
Delphos, Blocks of Stone which from the moft Ancient times reprefen-
ted Bachus, Apollo and luno ; thus Diana which the Town of Oree
adored in the shape of a rough tree , was reprefented in Caria by a
wooden roll . The Thefpians adored luno in the shape of a trunk of
a tree ~ Whilft at Samos she was reprefented by a fimpk plank ; Sto-
nes were alfo the Symbols of Hercules and the Graces themfelves in
their Temples of Hyette in Beotia and Orchomene ; the Thefpian Cupid

alfo

(5) Selden Sint. n. pag. 149.

(6) Paufanias lib, IX. idem lib. 2.

(7) Herodot. L. 131. IV. 60.
 
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