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Cybele and Attis - sculptures

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Votive gifts from the Santuario di Attis (IV,I,3). Photo: ICCD E049869.
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Statuette of Cybele on a throne with lions.
Dedication by Virius Marcarianus, vir clarissimus.
Height 0.98. Date: 250-275 AD.
Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.
MM01. CIL VI, 513. Photo: Wikimedia, Bujomar.
Statuette of Cybele on a throne with lions.
Height 0.78. Date: second century.
Museo Ostiense. Inv. 1165.
MM02. Photo: Rieger 2004, Abb. 122.
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Statue of a reclining Attis, with traces of gilding.
Dedication by C. Cartilius Euplus, numini Attis, ex monitu deae.
Height 1.12, length: 1.60. Date: c. 150 AD.
Vatican, Museo Gregoriano-Profano.
MM03. CIL XIV, 38. Photo: Arachne 21284.
Cista mystica in the shape of a modius, with a cock op top.
Dedication by M. Modius Maximus, archigallus coloniae Ostiensis.
Height 0.50. Date: second century?
Vatican, Museo Gregoriano-Profano.
MM04. CIL XIV, 385. Photo: Rieger 2004, Abb. 119a-b.
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Bronze statuette of Venus, with red cloth.
Height 0.70. Date: ---.
Vatican, Museo Gregoriano-Profano.
MM05. Photo: Arachne 21375.
Altar with the twelve gods, side a.
Height 0.44. Date: 100 BC - 50 AD.
Museo Ostiense. Inv. 120.
MM06. Photo: ICCD E023915.
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Altar with the twelve gods, side b.
Height 0.44. Date: 100 BC - 50 AD.
Museo Ostiense. Inv. 120.
MM06. Photo: ICCD E023916.
Altar with the twelve gods, side c.
Height 0.44. Date: 100 BC - 50 AD.
Museo Ostiense. Inv. 120.
MM06. Photo: ICCD E023917.
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Base of candelabrum, side a. Satyr and panther.
Height 0.70. Date: period of Augustus.
Museo Ostiense. Inv. 12.
MM07. Photo: Arachne 635922.
Base of candelabrum, side b. Dancing satyr.
Height 0.70. Date: period of Augustus.
Museo Ostiense. Inv. 12.
MM07. Photo: Arachne 635922.
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Base of candelabrum, side c. Sacrificing satyr.
Height 0.70. Date: period of Augustus.
Museo Ostiense. Inv. 12.
MM07. Photo: Arachne 635922.
Base of candelabrum, side a. Apollo.
Height 0.70. Date: period of Augustus.
Museo Ostiense. Inv. 13.
MM07. Photo: Arachne 54986.
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Base of candelabrum, side b. Mercurius.
Height 0.70. Date: period of Augustus.
Museo Ostiense. Inv. 13.
MM07. Photo: Arachne 54986.
Base of candelabrum (inv. nr. 13), side c. Hercules.
Height 0.70. Date: period of Augustus.
Museo Ostiense. Inv. 13.
MM07. Photo: Arachne 54986.
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Statuette of a reclining Attis.
Height 0.34, length 0.49. Date: second century.
Museo Ostiense. Inv. 173.
MM08. Photo: Wikimedia, Sailko.
Relief of a reclining Attis.
Height 0.75, length 0.85. Date: second century.
Museo Ostiense. Inv. 163.
MM09. Photo: Wikimedia, Sailko.
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Statuette of Attis-Dionysus on a lion.
Dedication by C. Cartilius Euplus, ex monitu deae.
Height 1.16. Date: Antonine.
Museo Ostiense. Inv. 161.
MM10. EDR172719. Photo: Wikimedia, Sailko.
Statuette of Attis.
Height 0.72. Date: second century.
Museo Ostiense. Inv. 170.
MM11. Photo: Rieger 2004, Abb. 98.
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Statuette of Attis (?).
Height 0.58. Date: Antonine.
Museo Ostiense. Inv. 169.
MM12. Photo: Wikimedia, Sailko.
Statuette of Apollo (?).
Dedication by C. Cartilius Euplus, ex monitu deae.
Height 0.61. Date: second century.
Museo Ostiense. Inv. 168.
MM13. EDR073675. Photo: Wikimedia, Sailko.
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Statuette of an armed dancer (corybant).
Dedication by C. Cartilius [Euplus?].
Height 0.96. Date: Antonine.
Museo Ostiense. Inv. 167.
MM14. EDR172718. Photo: Wikimedia, Sailko.
Statuette of Venus.
Dedication by C. Cartilius Euplus.
Height 1.03. Date: second century.
Museo Ostiense. Inv. 166.
MM15. EDR172676. Photo: Wikimedia, Sailko.
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Statuette of Venus.
Height 0.34. Date: second century.
Museo Ostiense. Inv 166a (or 199?).
MM16. Photo: Rieger 2004, Abb. 102b.
Statuette of Venus.
Height 0.38. Date: second century.
Museo Ostiense. Inv. 166b (or 192?).
MM17. Photo: Rieger 2004, Abb. 102c.
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Statuette of Venus.
Height 0.35. Date: second century.
Museo Ostiense. Inv. 193 and 194.
MM18. Photo: Rieger 2004, Abb. 103.
Statuette of Fortuna.
Height 0.85. Date: second century.
Museo Ostiense. Inv. 171.
MM19. Photo: Wikimedia, Sailko.
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Pine tree and snake.
Dedication by C. Cartilius Euplus to Attis, ex monitu deae.
Height 0.91. Date: second century.
Museo Ostiense. Inv. 172.
MM20. EDR073673. Photo: Wikimedia, Sailko.
Frieze with a lion and a deer (part a).
Dedication by C. Cartilius Euplus, numini Attis, ex monitu deae.
Height 0.33. Date: Antonine.
Museo Ostiense. Inv. 162.
MM21. EDR172717. Photo: Wikimedia, Sailko.
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Frieze with a bear and a panther (part b).
Dedication by C. Cartilius Euplus, numini Attis, ex monitu deae.
Height 0.33. Date: Antonine.
Museo Ostiense. Inv. 162.
MM21. EDR172717. Photo: Wikimedia, Sailko.
Frieze with a lion (part c).
Dedication by C. Cartilius Euplus, numini Attis, ex monitu deae.
Height 0.33. Date: Antonine.
Museo Ostiense. Inv. 162.
MM21. EDR172717. Photo: Wikimedia, Sailko.
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Statuette of the bull Apis.
Dedication by C. Cartilius Euplus.
Height 0.75, length 0.58. Date: Antonine.
Museo Ostiense. Inv. 164.
MM22. EDR172677. Photo: Rieger 2004, Abb. 95a-c.
Statue of Dionysus.
Dedication by Volusianus vir clarissimus, ex praefe(c)tis, tauroboliatus.
Height 1.33. Date: 366-390 AD (reused).
Museo Ostiense. Inv. 165.
MM24. EDR073502. Photo: Wikimedia, Sailko.
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Armoured statue (Vespasianus?).
Height 1.77. Date: late first century.
Museo Ostiense. Inv. 1245.
MM26. Photo: Wikimedia, Sailko.
Portrait of Vespasianus.
H. 0.40. Date: Flavian, posthumous.
Museo Nazionale Romano.
MM33. Photo: Jan Theo Bakker.
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Portrait of Trajanus.
Height 0.37. Date: late-Trajanic.
Vatican, Museo Gregoriano Profano.
MM34. Photo: Rieger 2004, Abb. 135.
Portrait of Antinous as priest.
Height 0.265. Date: around 130 AD.
Museo Nazionale Romano.
MM35. Photo: Jan Theo Bakker.
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Portrait of Lucius Verus.
Height 0.37. Date: 140-150 AD.
Museo Ostiense. Inv. 47.
MM36. Photo: Arachne 24129.
Portrait of a woman (Didia Clara? Julia Domna?).
Height 0.22. Date: late-Antonine / early-Severan.
Vatican, Museo Gregoriano Profano.
MM37. Photo: Arachne 34978.
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Portrait of a woman (Plotina? Matidia?).
Height 0.08. Date: Trajanic.
Museo Ostiense. Inv. 281.
MM38. Photo: Scavi di Ostia V, Tav. 53 nr. 91.
Small head of Attis
From the Episcopium in Portus.
Photo: ICCD F011969B.
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Cippus with symbols of Attis.
From the Isola Sacra necropolis.
Museo Ostiense.
Photo: Wikimedia, Sailko.
Lid of a sarcophagus with an archigallus.
From the Isola Sacra necropolis, tomb 75.
Date: second half of the third century.
Museo Ostiense.
Photo: Wikimedia, Sailko.
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Relief of an archigallus.
From the Isola Sacra necropolis, tomb 75.
Date: second half of the third century.
Museo Ostiense.
Photo: Wikimedia, Sailko.
Relief of an archigallus.
From the Isola Sacra necropolis, tomb 75.
Date: second half of the third century.
Museo Ostiense.
Photo: Wikimedia, Sailko.