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Title: The great mother of the gods
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Showerman, Grant, 1870-1935
Subjects: Cybele (Goddess) Mythology, Classical
Publisher: Madison
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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animals themselves; thecock, g alius, as a play on the designation of the priests, thesacrificial knife, the Mother herself in her car attended byAttis—may be mentioned here.100 Votive offerings are nu-merous both in Greece and the West. Here may be classedthe silver image presented by the Archigallus and others to the college of the cannophori at Ostia. 1 At Arausio in Gal-lia Narbonensis was found a marble fragment inscribed to the Mother and bearing the delineation of a human foot.2A coin of 83 B. C. shows the goddess and a deformed hu-man foot.3 Votive offerings in the form of reliefs of thedeity in aediculae were common in the Hieron of Epidaurusand have been found in great numbers in Italy. The latteraverage about 35 by 25 centimeters, and present the deity 97 Dutschke Antike Bildw. in Oberitalien IV 354, 359, 360, 380. 98Diitschke ibid. V 569. Helbig Coll. of Antiq. in Rome I 436. 100 C. I. L. VI 494-512; XII 1569; XIV 429. I Ibid. XIV 34-37. II Ibid. XII 1223.8 Bab. I 526, 19.
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SHOWERMAN—THE GREAT MOTHER. 321 in most instances on her throne with modius or mural crownand full drapery, two locks of hair descending on eitherside of the face, the tympanum and patera in her hands,a lion on her knees or lions at her side, while a female fig-ure with a torch, or a youth, stands near.4 As examples of statues may be mentioned the figure inVisconti Museo Pio-Clementino, fully draped, with muralcrown and veil, seated on a throne and resting the left armupon the tympanum, the similarly clad life-size figure foundat Formiae, now in Copenhagen, which held aloft its lefthand with the reins of the lions, the statue found on thePalatine, and the statue of Attis from Ostia, already de-scribed. 5 Statuettes of the goddess with her usual attri-butes are abundant in Italy,6 and a group in bronze repre-senting her in her car drawn by lions, discovered at Eome,is now in the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. Among smaller figures may be cited the above-mentionedterra-cottas o

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