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Towards a Definition of the Iconography of Sabazius*

Towards a Definition of the Iconography of Sabazius* TOWARDS A DEFINITION OF THE ICONOGRAPHY OF SABAZIUS* EUGENE N. LANE I. Introduction: Unquestioned Sabazius-Representations In the course of my doing preliminary work for a corpus of the epigraphical material for the cult of Sabazius, to appear in a future volume of the Etudes préliminaires aux religions orientales dans 1empire ro- main, it has become almost painfully evident to me that there exists no generally accepted standard for the recognition of this god in art, and that the most extremely variable iconographic types have in the course of the last fifty or so years been taken as representing this divinity, sometimes with little or no apparent justification. It seems to me therefore an indispensable preliminary step, if we are ever to construct a meaningful corpus of this material, to determine rather rigorously what is to be included and what excluded. We must try to determine what kind of a representation the artisan would have used the word "Sabazius" for when he was making it, and the average ancient observer would have designated "Sabazius" when he saw it. Now in defining the iconography of this divinity, attested from the comedies of Aristophanes to the end of Greco-Roman paganism, there http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Numen Brill

Towards a Definition of the Iconography of Sabazius*

Lane, Eugene N.
Numen , Volume 27 (1): 9 – Jan 1, 1980
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© 1980 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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TOWARDS A DEFINITION OF THE ICONOGRAPHY OF SABAZIUS* EUGENE N. LANE I. Introduction: Unquestioned Sabazius-Representations In the course of my doing preliminary work for a corpus of the epigraphical material for the cult of Sabazius, to appear in a future volume of the Etudes préliminaires aux religions orientales dans 1empire ro- main, it has become almost painfully evident to me that there exists no generally accepted standard for the recognition of this god in art, and that the most extremely variable iconographic types have in the course of the last fifty or so years been taken as representing this divinity, sometimes with little or no apparent justification. It seems to me therefore an indispensable preliminary step, if we are ever to construct a meaningful corpus of this material, to determine rather rigorously what is to be included and what excluded. We must try to determine what kind of a representation the artisan would have used the word "Sabazius" for when he was making it, and the average ancient observer would have designated "Sabazius" when he saw it. Now in defining the iconography of this divinity, attested from the comedies of Aristophanes to the end of Greco-Roman paganism, there

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