[1934] Erman, Handbook of Egyptian Religion, pp. 72, 221, is disposed to reject the statement of Strabo (xvii, i, 46) that there was libertinage at Thebes. Cf. Wilkinson, The Ancient Egyptians, Index, s.v. Priestesses.
[1935] C. H. W. Johns, article "Code of Hammurabi" in Hastings, Dictionary of the Bible, extra volume; D. G. Lyon, "The Consecrated Women of the Hammurabi Code" in Studies in the History of Religions presented to C. H. Toy.
[1936] Strabo, p. 378.
[1937] Roscher, Lexikon, article "Aphrodite," col. 401. Cf. the practice mentioned in 1 Sam. ii, 22.
[1938] Curtiss, Primitive Semitic Religion To-day.
[1939] See, for example, 1 Sam. ii, 22.
[1940] For a description of their privileges and power in Ashanti see Ellis, Tshi, p. 121 ff.
[1941] License in festivals and mystical or symbolic marriages are excluded as not being official consecration of a class of persons.
[1942] Examples are given in Westermarck, Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas, ii, 443 ff.; Frazer, Adonis Attis Osiris, chap. iv; Seligmann, Der böse Blick und Verwandies, ii, 190 ff.; and see above, § 384 ff.
[1943] Inscription of Tralles; see Ramsay, Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia, i, 94 ff.; Farnell, Cults of the Greek States, ii, 636.