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拍品 119
A ROMAN BRONZE GROUP OF MITHRAS-SABAZIOS
CIRCA 2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
已結束2012年10月25日
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GBP 12,500
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Sabazios is a Phrygian and Thracian god of vegetation, his cult not dissimilar to that of the Greek Dionysos and including many of the same features of mystery cults. Standard iconography saw the god dressed in Phrygian attire, mounted on horseback, and carrying a pinecone. Under the Roman Empire, he became assimilated with Mithras, sharing much of the same ritual practice and cultic iconograpy. A Roman relief in the National Museum of Copenhagen depicts Sabazios in Phrygian attire, holding the pinecone in one hand, and with the Mithraic luna and other symbols in the field (cf., C. Ruck, Mushrooms, Myth & Mithras, San Francisco, 2011, pp.153ff.).