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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2971831, member: 82322&quot;]I also saw the fungus!&nbsp; I did find a book, <i>Urnula Faberrime Cavata: Observations on a Vessel Used in the Cult of Isis</i> by Elfriede Regina Knauer but it is expensive and might be in German.</p><p><br /></p><p>The even more expensive book <i>Romanising Oriental Gods: Myth, Salvation, and Ethics in the Cults of Cybele </i>says:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]729224[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]729225[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>An English translation of Apuleius describes the arrival of the goddess:</p><p><i>... In her right hand was a bronze </i></p><p><i>sistrum, a narrow strip of metal curved back on itself like a sword- </i></p><p><i>belt and pierced by a number of thin rods, which when shaken in </i></p><p><i>triple time gave off a rattling sound. From her left hand hung a gold </i></p><p><i>pitcher [urnula], the upper part of its handle in the form of a rampant asp </i></p><p><i>with head held aloft and neck puffed out.</i></p><p><a href="https://archive.org/stream/TheGoldenAss_201509/TheGoldenAsspenguinClassics-Apuleius_djvu.txt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/stream/TheGoldenAss_201509/TheGoldenAsspenguinClassics-Apuleius_djvu.txt" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/stream/TheGoldenAss_201509/TheGoldenAsspenguinClassics-Apuleius_djvu.txt</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect there is no evidence that the picture we have seen is Apulius&#039; &quot;urnula&quot;.&nbsp; Instead people have been looking for something in art matching that description.&nbsp; I would love to be proven wrong if anyone can track down the references.&nbsp; The &quot;Procession&quot; referred to is this one, and I suspect they mean the second figure&#039;s vase.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]729231[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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