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NOTES ASIA MINOR. 227
tainly was understood by all. This proves that the use of that
periphrasis was general, and that it must have dated back to
a much earlier period. As a matter of fact a dedication has
been found at Delos, reading Au rw KCLVTUV Kparovvrt nal Mrirpl
u.tyaki]i TIII TrdvTuv Kparovay (Bull. corr. hellen., 1882, p. 502, No.
25), that reminds the reader of the TravTOKparwp of the Septu-
gint; and Graillot (loc. c\t., p. 328, n. 7) justly observes, in this
connection, that on certain bas-reliefs Cybele was united with
the Theos Hypsistos, that is to say, the god of Israel; see
Perdrizet, Bull. corr. hell., XXIII, 1899, p. 598. On the in
fluence of Judaism on the cult of Men cf. Sam. Wide, Archiv
fur Religions^v., 1909, p. 227. On the omnipotence of the
Syrian gods, see ch. V, pp.
128 ff.
31. We are here giving the substance of a short essay on
"Les mysteres de Sabazius et le judaisme," published in the
Comptes Rendus Acad. Inscr., Febr. 9, 1906, pp. 63 ff. Cf. "A
propos de Sabazius," Musee beige, XIV, 1910, pp. 56 ff.
32. Cf. Monuments myst. de Mithra, I, p. 333 f. The very
early assimilation of Cybele and Anahita justifies to a certain
extent the unwarranted practice of calling Cybele the Persian
Artemis. See Radet, Revue des etudes ancicnnes, X, 1908, p.
157. The pagan theologians often considered Attis as the
primeval man whose death brought about the creation, and so
they likened him to the Mazdean Gayomart, see Bousset,
Hauptprobleme der Gnosis, 1907, pp. 184 ff.
33. Prudentius, Peristeph., X, ion f.
34. Their meaning has been revealed through an inscription
at Pergamum published by Schroder, Athen. Mitt., 1904, pp.
152 ff. ; cf. Revue archcologique, 1005, I, pp. 29 ff. The ideas
on the development of that ceremony, which we are summar
izing here, have been expounded by us more fully in the
Revue archeologique, 1888, II, pp. I32ff. ; Mon. myst. de Mithra,
I PP- 334 ff- Revue d histoirc ct de litt. ; relig., VI, 1901, p. 97.
Although the conclusions of the last article have been con
tested by Hepding (op. cit., 70 f.), it cannot be doubted that
the taurobolium was already practised in Asia Minor, in the
cult of the Ma-Bellona. Moore (American Journal of Arche
ology, 1905, p. 71) justly refers to the text of Steph. Byz., in
this connection : Mnorar/w knakf iTo 6t- nal q Pea Ma /cat ratyjof avr-g