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ID: 901001933
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001933
Record Type: Character/Person

Attis (Anatolian-Greco-Roman deity)

Note: Consort of the Great Mother of the Gods (Cybele, or Agdistis); he was worshipped in Phrygia, Asia Minor, and later throughout the Roman Empire, where he was made a solar deity in the 2nd century CE. The worship of Attis and the Great Mother included the annual celebration of mysteries on the return of the spring season. Attis, like the Great Mother, was probably indigenous to Asia Minor.

Names:
Attis (Anatolian-Greco-Roman deity) (preferred,English-P,D,N)
Atys (Anatolian-Greco-Roman deity) (English,U,N)

Hierarchical Position:
Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
....<Ancient Near-Middle Eastern iconography> (P)
........<Ancient Near-Middle Eastern characters> (P)
............Attis (Anatolian-Greco-Roman deity) (I)
Related Iconography:
consort/spouse of .... Cybele
..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Ancient Near-Middle Eastern iconography, Ancient Near-Middle Eastern characters, Cybele (Anatolian-Greco-Roman deity)) [901000614]

Other Relationships:
role/characteristic is .... deity
.....(people in religion, people in religion and related occupations, people in the humanities, people by occupation, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
culture/religion is .... Anatolian (culture or style)
.....(Near Eastern (Early Western World), Early Western World, styles, periods, and cultures by region, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:
Attis (Anatolian-Greco-Roman deity)
................Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) sh 86004535
................Iconclass Illustrated Edition (2022-) in 92L291 (story of) Attis (Atys)
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
Atys (Anatolian-Greco-Roman deity)
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
................Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
Iconography Record Sources:
................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) "Attis," accessed 4 July 2017
................ National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. [online] (2001-)

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