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Graeco-Roman art.
237. (I. N. 1582). Votive niche with Cybele. M.
H. 0.34. The fronton above slightly bruised, as also the nose and
face of the goddess. Acquired in 1897 from Greece via Munich.
In a naiscus with pilasters and fronton sits the Asia-Minor
goddess Cybele in chiton and himation, a polos on her head,
a drinking bowl in her right hand and a tambourin in her
left, and with her sacred animal, the lion, on her lap.
The motive itself is from Asia Minor like the goddess, but
came early to Athens, where Agoracritus, a pupil of Pheidias,
carved his statue of the enthroned goddess which stood in
the Metroon in Athens, where many similar reliefs have been
found. With the cult of Cybele the type: a Cybele enthroned in
a naiscus, spread to the remotest parts of the Graeco-Boman
world, from Constantinople to Marseilles. Among several
representations at this seaport there is one showing Cybele
on a background of rocks and trees (Esperandieu: Recueil
general. I p. 48 seqq.). Cybele was worshipped in caves,
and Cybele in the cave is the forerunner of Cybele in the
naiscus (see Svoronos: Nationalmuseum von Athen pls.
CXVI-CXX. v. Salis in Arch. Jahrb. XXVIII 1913 p. 1 seqq.,
but especially pp. 19-22). The motive of the lion on the lap
of the goddess can be followed right back to the 6th cent.
B. C. (v. Salis 1. c. p. 21 fig. 9). Agoracritus did not adopt it.
The Cybele cult, which in Phrygia was of a wild, orgiastic
character, was modified in Attica by the worship of the
goddess with whom the Attics associated her, their own
Demeter.
Billedtavler pl. XVII. Arndt-Amelung 4151 (Fr. Poulsen). Similar Cybele
reliefs are to be found i. a. in Berlin, see Blumel: Katalog Berlin III pl. 66
and 85. Cf. Hesperia IV 1935 p. 400 seq. and VI 1937 p. 204.
238. (I. N. 1567). A bull. Statue. M.
H 0.70, L. 1.40. The horns, legs, testicles, tail and support new in
plaster. Acquired in 1897 from Athens.
Like the well-known animal from the Dipylon gate, this
bull once adorned a tomb. The Dipylon bull, found in the
cemetery at Cerameicus (its legs and plinth likewise re-
stored), stood on a pillar behind a gravestone of the naiscus
type, and we must imagine the Glyptotek bull placed in a
similar elevated position; in other words, employed as a
kind of acroterium. The powerful, goring bull is an animal
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237. (I. N. 1582). Votive niche with Cybele. M.
H. 0.34. The fronton above slightly bruised, as also the nose and
face of the goddess. Acquired in 1897 from Greece via Munich.
In a naiscus with pilasters and fronton sits the Asia-Minor
goddess Cybele in chiton and himation, a polos on her head,
a drinking bowl in her right hand and a tambourin in her
left, and with her sacred animal, the lion, on her lap.
The motive itself is from Asia Minor like the goddess, but
came early to Athens, where Agoracritus, a pupil of Pheidias,
carved his statue of the enthroned goddess which stood in
the Metroon in Athens, where many similar reliefs have been
found. With the cult of Cybele the type: a Cybele enthroned in
a naiscus, spread to the remotest parts of the Graeco-Boman
world, from Constantinople to Marseilles. Among several
representations at this seaport there is one showing Cybele
on a background of rocks and trees (Esperandieu: Recueil
general. I p. 48 seqq.). Cybele was worshipped in caves,
and Cybele in the cave is the forerunner of Cybele in the
naiscus (see Svoronos: Nationalmuseum von Athen pls.
CXVI-CXX. v. Salis in Arch. Jahrb. XXVIII 1913 p. 1 seqq.,
but especially pp. 19-22). The motive of the lion on the lap
of the goddess can be followed right back to the 6th cent.
B. C. (v. Salis 1. c. p. 21 fig. 9). Agoracritus did not adopt it.
The Cybele cult, which in Phrygia was of a wild, orgiastic
character, was modified in Attica by the worship of the
goddess with whom the Attics associated her, their own
Demeter.
Billedtavler pl. XVII. Arndt-Amelung 4151 (Fr. Poulsen). Similar Cybele
reliefs are to be found i. a. in Berlin, see Blumel: Katalog Berlin III pl. 66
and 85. Cf. Hesperia IV 1935 p. 400 seq. and VI 1937 p. 204.
238. (I. N. 1567). A bull. Statue. M.
H 0.70, L. 1.40. The horns, legs, testicles, tail and support new in
plaster. Acquired in 1897 from Athens.
Like the well-known animal from the Dipylon gate, this
bull once adorned a tomb. The Dipylon bull, found in the
cemetery at Cerameicus (its legs and plinth likewise re-
stored), stood on a pillar behind a gravestone of the naiscus
type, and we must imagine the Glyptotek bull placed in a
similar elevated position; in other words, employed as a
kind of acroterium. The powerful, goring bull is an animal
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