Religions of Rome Volume 1 by Mary Beard & John North & Simon Price

Author:Mary Beard & John North & Simon Price
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

Fig. 5.3 One of a pair of ivory zodiacal tables, from the healing sanctuary of Apollo at Grand (Vosges, France), which were destroyed c. A.D. 170. In the centre: Sun and Moon. Round them are the twelve signs of the zodiac, each marked with Greek letters indicating the ‘domain’ of the planet, according to the Egyptian system. A large circle shows as Egyptian gods the 36 decans, that is the gods who each influence ten days per zodiacal sign; each is labelled with its name, originally in Egyptian, but transcribed into Greek. In the corners are the four winds. These very Egyptian objects (a startling discovery in a Gallic sanctuary) presumably served to guide the choice of treatments for diseases and also to predict lengths of life and manners of death. Astrologers in Rome and elsewhere used similarly arcane tables. (Height 0.19m., width 0.29m.)

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