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however, is of doubtful value. F. Cumont^ assumes confusion with
Cautes and Cautopatesl We have also to reckon with the funerary
type of the pensive, torch-bearing Eros common enough in the
Fig. 198.
Graeco-Roman age-'. Moreover, Attis, as a god reborn, would be a
favourite emblem of resurrection and, like Nike in a different setting,
peculiarly liable to decorative multiplication. But Haakh has more
to urge in support of his Phrygian twins : he appeals to literary as
bay-tree [Beitrlige ziir Landeskwlde fiir Oesteri-eich ob der Enns iind Salzburg Linz 1846 v
pi. 3, no. 4, Haakh loc. cit. p. 184 f, with fig.). To these should be added : (6) A tomb-
stone from Andernach, on which each Attis has above his head an Amazonian shield
(J. Klein in the BonnerJahrbiicher 1884 Ixxvii. 14—37 pi. i = my fig. 199, Reinach Rep.
Reliefs ii. 54 no. i, Corp. inscr. Lat. xiii no. 7684) ; (7) A tombstone from Bingerbriick,
now at Kreuznach (Reinach Rep. Reliefs ii. 66 no. i, Corp. inscr. Lat. xiii no. 7507).
Doubtless other examples could be collected.
^ F. Cumont in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. ii. i^i\.
- Supra i. 516 n. i.
^ A. Furtwangler in Roscher Lex. Myth. i. 1369 f., O. Waser in Pauly—Wissowa
Real-Enc. vi. 508 f., infra Append. G sub Jin.
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