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Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

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278<br />

Dios and Dios Nysos<br />

monly end with a curse on the violator of the tomb^ This curse,<br />

expressed <strong>in</strong> the Phrygian language though the rest of the <strong>in</strong>scrip-<br />

tion is <strong>in</strong> Greek, devotes the offender to Attis among certa<strong>in</strong> powers,<br />

who are described as deos zemelos, deds ze<strong>in</strong>elos ke, zemeld ke deos,<br />

dids ze<strong>in</strong>elos, dios ke szemelos ke, or the like^ The most probable<br />

<strong>in</strong>terpretation of this vexed phrase^ is that proposed by G. Meyer^<br />

1 Such formulae of execration were <strong>in</strong> use among the Phrygians a thousand years<br />

earlier {id. ib. 1913 xxxiii. 102).<br />

^ The examples so far published are the follow<strong>in</strong>g (numbered <strong>in</strong> accordance with<br />

Mr Calder's Corpus)<br />

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6 Tos VI fi€ ^eixe\t>3 k€ 5eo5 en rjTiTTeTLKfuevos e[iT \ov.<br />

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