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Document Details : Title: A Religious Association at Sardes Author(s): RIGSBY, Kent Journal: Ancient Society Volume: 44 Date: 2014 Pages: 1-23 DOI: 10.2143/AS.44.0.3044797 Abstract : An inscription at Sardes, carved in the second century AD, preserves a dedication of a statue by an Achaemenid governor (fifth or fourth century BC) and two unusual injunctions banning the therapeutai who tend the statue from participating in mysteries of Sabazius, Agdistis, and Ma. The paper argues that the two injunctions date from Roman Imperial times, the privileged therapeutai reacting against cults that they regarded as novel and exotic. |
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