Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

300 The Mother-goddess and ]itv pdredros
Rome to Paris, and subsequent!}' published by Montfaucon, repre-
sents a priest wearing on his breast two medalHons and an aedicula
(fig. 192)1 : the medallions display two busts of Attis ; the aedicula has
Kybele with mural crown and timbrel standing between lupiter
(thunderbolt, spear) and Mercurius {caduceus), the gable being occu-
pied by a reclining figure of Attis (cap, lagoboloii). A relief, found in
1736 between Civita Lavinia and Genzano and now in the Palazzo dei
Fig. igi.
Conservatori at Rome-, shows (fig. 193)^ a priest of effeminate aspect
wearing a long-sleeved cJiiton and a hiindtion drawn like a veil over
his head. He has ear-rings, fillets, and a necklace. In his right hand
is a pomegranate and three pomegranate (?)-twigs ; in his left hand
a shell-shaped bowl of fruit including a fir-cone and almonds. A
whip of triple lash strung with knuckle-bones hangs over his
shoulder. And beside him are suspended a pair of cymbals, a tim-
brel, a pipe, a flute, and a basket or kiste containing his severed
1 Montfaucon Antiquity Explained trans. D. Humphreys London 1721 i. 6f. pi. 3
no. 9 statue {minus head and arms) belonging to M. Foucault. My fig. 192 reproduces
the upper part of the figure only.
^ W. Helbig Fiihrer dtirch die offeritlichen Saiiunhmgen klassischer AltertUmer in
Roin'^ Leipzig 1912 i. 566 no. 987.
^ G. Winckelmann Monumenti antichi inediti Roma 1821 ii. 7 ft". pi. 8, P. Righetti
Descrizione del Cavipidoglio Roma 1833 i. 131 f. pi. 130 ( = my fig. 193), Baumeister Z)^«/J/«.
ii. 801 f. fig. 867, Reinach R^p. Reliefs iii. 207 no. i, H. Graillot Le culte de Cybele Mere
des dieux a Rome et dans Pempire romain Paris 1912 p. 236 ff.