Taurobolium of Γα[μα?]λ̣ίος created by Alexander Gangoly MAPPOLA Database This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. MPL00288 640701 https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscription/show/288 Città del Vaticano, Musei Vaticani, Museo Gregoriano Profano 9936 altar incomplete 69.0 58.0 62.0 Pulvini on each side, on the front with flowers in it; lat. dex.: pine tree with pan flute and tympanum hanging in its branches; underneath an aulus(?), a pedum and a bull; lat. sin.: pine tree with crotala, pan flute and a pileus Phrygius hanging in its branches; ram; par. aversa: patera between taedae transversae; left a pedum, right an urceus Animal / bull Animal / ram Architecture / pulvinus Object / Musical instrument Object / Patera Object / Phrygian cap Object / Urceus Object / weapon Plant / Pine cone chiselled Verse Yes 2.5-3.0 Roma 301-400 Roma Palace of the Convertendi ad S. Petri plateam (in Phrygiano) (a. 1919) 41.9027 12.4608 no

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Ἔργα, νόον, πρῆξιν, βίον ἔξοχον, ἐσθλὰ πρόπαντα Γαμαλίου πραπίδων, τοῦτο φέρω τὸ θῦμα· ὃς ΔΗΙΣ παλίνορσον ἐπ’ Εὐρυβίην πάλι ταῦρον ἤγαγε καὶ κρειόν, σύμβολον εὐτυχίης. ὀκτὼ γὰρ λυκάβαντας ἐπ’ εἴκοσιν ἠρεμέοντας νύκτα διασκεδάσας αὖθις ἔθηκε φάος. ανιη ΚΥΙ νόος ἡμῶν.

Text follows IGUR, checked with picture by A. Gangoly 2023. l. 2: Γα[μα]λίου Fabre; Γαιδαλίου Guarducci. l. 3: Δ[ηοῦ]ς Fabre; Δη̣ο̣ῖ̣ Wilamowitz in SEG 02; δεῖος Guarducci. l. 7: ανιη κυ αἷμα Guarducci.

IGUR 01, 00127, cf. 04, p. 148 SEG 02, 00518 SEG 04, 00156 P. Fabre, Un autel du culte phrygien au Musée du Latran, Mélanges d'archéologie et d'histoire. Ecole Française de Rome Antiquité 40 (1923), 3–18 (with French translation). SEG 32, 1048 R. Duthoy, The Taurobolium. Its Evolution and Terminology, Leiden 1969, 22–24 no. 33 (with French and English translation) M. Vermaseren, Cybele and Attis. The Myth and the Cult, London 1977, 50. M. Vermaseren, Corpus cultus Cybelae Attidisque (CCCA). III. Italia — Latium, Leiden 1977, 56 no. 239 (with photo tab. CXXIV–CXXV). M. Guarducci, L'interruzione dei culti nel <i>Phrygianum</i> del Vaticano durante il IV secolo d.Cr.. In: U. Bianchi (ed.), M. Vermaseren (ed.), La Soteriologia dei culti orientali nell’ impero romano, Leiden 1982, 109–122 (with photo and Italian translation) - SEG 32. L. Dubosson-Sbriglione, Le culte de la Mère des dieux dans l'Empire romain, Stuttgart 2018, 510 no. 113 (with Italian translation). Cf. P. Liverani, Il “Phrygianum” vaticano. In: Palma Venetucci (ed.), Culti orientali tra scavo e collezionismo, Rome 2008, 45