TM Gods: Dionysos

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TM God 111

Dionysos

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Greek: Διόνυσος

Latin: Dionysus

Gender: Male

Linguistic origins: Greek

Description / typology: god of the grape-harvest, winemaking, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, festivity, and theatre; 'ancestor' of the Ptolemaic dynasty

Bibliography: Kolta, Die Gleichsetzung, 1968, p. 58-69; von Lieven, in: Rutherford (ed.), Graeco-Roman interactions, 2016, p. 61-82

Notes: equivalent of Osiris (TM God 65); cf. also Bakchantes (TM God 1870)

Links: Encyclopedia Mythica, Theoi, Theoi, Wikipedia (Bacchanalia), Wikipedia (Dionysus)

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GodRef ID	Publication	Attestation	GodVar	Provenance (text)	Date

23006	P. Halle 1	Διόνυσον	Διόνυσος	Egypt, U02 - Apollonopolites [found & written]	BC 259 after
24791	SB 14 12055	Διόνυσος	Διόνυσος	Egypt [found & written]	BC 225 - 175 (cf. Clarysse (on the basis of the script))
21972	SB 3 7266	Διονύσωι	Διόνυσος	Egypt [written] Egypt, U19 - Oxyrynchites (?) [found]	BC 215 - 205 (P04)
16799	CIL VI.4.1 30103	Baccho	Bacchus	Italy, Latium - Rome [found & written]	BC 199 - AD 799?
150	CIL XI.1 127	Baccho	Bacchus	Italy, Aemilia - Ravenna [found & written]	BC 199 - AD 799?

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