CIMRM 84 - Hecate statuette. Sidon. In the Louvre.
See also: CIMRM 74 Mithraeum; 75 Tauroctony relief; 76 Tauroctony statuette; 77 Mithras carrying bull statuette; 78-9 lion-headed statuette; 80 Cautes statuette; 81 Cautopates statuette; 82 Cautes with axe statuette; 83 Cautes with axe statuette; 84-5 Hecate statuette; 86 Two Venus statuettes; 87 Vermaseren's research note;
From the Mithraeum at Sidon. Hecate is depicted as a triple goddess surrounded by dancers.
CIMRM entry
84. Statue of Parian marble (H. 0.755; diam. base 0.245).
de Ridder, 67ffNo. 54 and Pl. XXVIII; Will in Syria XXVII, 1950, 167 fig. 1.
On a base, in which an inscription (No. 85), a standing triple Hekate, the heads of whom bear a commune polos. The figure is encircled by three dancing Nymphs.
85.
Fl. Gero/ntioj, path\r no/mimoj, eu0xaristw~n th\n qeo\n a0fierwsa/tw f' e!ti.
See CIMRM 76 and CIMRM 78-79 for similar inscriptions by the same Flavius Gerontius, again giving the date as "year 500".
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