Cybele seated in a naiskos on a low bench with footstool. The goddess wears a polos, long hairtresses, chiton and himation. She holds a large tympanum in her left hand and a patera in her outstretched right hand. On her lap a little lion lying towards the left.
Chalcis 404. White marble relief (H. 0.295, W. 0.175, D. 0.07-0.095). Chalcis, Archaeological Museum, Inv. no 28. PI. CXXIII with permission of Mr. Petrakos, the Director of the Museum. Naiskos with pediment and acroteria. Cybele sitting on a low throne with footstool. Polos and tresses, in her right hand a patera; in her left hand a tympanum; on her lap a lion lying towards the left.
405. White marble statue (H. 0.42, W. 0.31, D. 0.22-0.28). Chalcis, Archaeological Museum, Inv. no 56. Cybele sitting on a beautiful, elaborated, high throne with footstool. The head and most of the right arm are missing. In the right arm of the throne is a drill-hole certainly in order to sustain the goddess' right hand. At her left side only a little part of a tympanum is visible. The foremost part of the right foot is lost, but there is a drill-hole for fasten ing the toes which were made separately. At the right side of the goddess a lion is sitting in frontal attitude; the head, the breast and the right forepaw are almost completely lost; in the breast a large drill-hole. In the back of the statue is a large hole; there are traces of red colour on the side of the throne. Oreus 406. Marble relief (measurements unknown) from Oreos. Actual place of conservation unknown. Graillot, 512 who refers to a photograph of the DAI; cf. Arndt·Amelung, EA no 533. Cybele enthroned between two lions.
BOEOTIA Anthedon 407. Terracotta figurine (measurements unknown). In 1891 it was in Athens at an Antiquarian. Said to come from Anthedon. Winter, Tk III (2), 175. A photo in Berlin, Antiquarjum, neg. 165. 124 CORPUS CULTUS CYBELAE ATTIDISQUE, II
Cybele riding on a lion towards the left. She holds a little tympanum in her left hand. There is doubt that the figure is genuine.
Tanagra
408. Korte in AM 3, 1878, 388ff mentions two temples which were excavated in 1874 at the foot of the Soros. The larger temple (L. 11.55, W. 7.60) is situated "wo der Weg von Mustaphades den Soros hinan zu steigen beginnt und ist von den steileren Abhangen desselben noch etwa 10 Minuten entfernt." There are remnants of columns. This temple probably was dedicated to Cybele. Another smaller temple (L. 6.95, W. 3.30) possibly dedicated to the Eleusinian goddess is situated "ein wenig mehr nach der Ebne zu aber auf grosserer Hohe." Both temples have east-west orientation.
409. Relief in Pentelic marble (H. 0.495, W. 0.315, D. not measurable) in eight fragments. Found in the ruins of a sanctuary of (?) Cybele near the village of Mustaphades in the demos of Tanagra. Athens, National Museum, Inv. no 1421. G. Korte in AM 3, 1878, 390ff nos 156-156a-c; K. MilchhOfer in AM 5, 1880,209, 1 and 216; Furtwangler in BWPr 1880, 28; Conze in AZ 38, 1880,3 no K, cf in AZ 39, 1881,59; L. Gurlitt in AZ 38,1880, 187f and PI. 18; Sybel, 226 nos 3187-3190; Arndt-Amelung, EA 1902,23 no 1250; Svoronos, NM, 363ff no 119, no 1421 and PI. XLV with fig. 192. From the reconstruction of Svoronos it is not certain that the relief belongs to the Cybele cult. At the left is part of a throne and the naked breast and the unbearded horned head of a reclining satyr. Two other fragments with the heads of two women may belong to Demeter and Kore. Five fragments show a standing bearded god and three Maenads. The second one holds a stick and the last one a tympanum in the left hand. Date: second half of the fifth century B.C.
410. The upper part of a relief in Pentelic marble (H. 0.11, W. 0.13). Varvakion, Museum. Korte in AM 3, 1878, 392 no 157. The upper part of a naiskos with pediment. The head with p%s and tresses of Cybele.