![]() ![]() ![]() To offer the following comments on Sabazios, with the hope that the scholar who hasĬontributed so much to our understanding of this divinity in ancient MediterraneanĬult may find a few original points in it to stimulate his interest. Was my first contact with Professor Lane, but it proved to be the start of a rewardingĪssociation from which I have benefitted enormously. With eastern divinities in Greek and Roman cult, he was right and I was wrong. As was so often the case in matters dealing Print, I received a letter from Eugene Lane telling me that I was mistaken whoever Of Erika Simon, note 3 I offered an identification as Sabazios. The Greek Kybele, but the male figure presents more of a puzzle. note 2 The female divinity can be identified with some certainty as the Mother of the Gods, note 1 Among the pieces I discussed was an Attic red figured krater from Spina, now inįerrara, with a scene of two seated divinities, one male and one female, both making ♡ In 1989 I published an article on examples of Attic vase painting which illustrate
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