Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

The Mother-goddess and her pdredros 297
Syncretism of this sort can be illustrated by a marble statue of
Hadrianic date (fig. 189)^ found during the winter of 1867— 1868 in
the hall of the Dendrophori- adjoining the Metroion at Ostia* and
now preserved in the Lateran Museum at Rome*. Attis, a youth
Fig. 189.
of markedly feminine type, is reclining on a rock, whose hard
surface is softened by the spread of his mantle. His left arm is
propped on a bust of Zeus". His left hand, with a ring on the
ring-finger, holds a lagobolon ; his right, a bunch of corn, fruit, and
lines (two catalectic dimeters, two tripodies, four catalectic dimeters) ; Wilamowitz, as
ten spondaic lines (a dimeter, a catalectic dimeter, four catalectic monometers, four
catalectic dimeters), viz. :
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