MAMA XI 132 (Upper Tembris Valley) 
Statuette of Hekate triformis
- Type of monument:
- Marble statuette.
- Location:
- Çalköy (Zafertepe) (Upper Tembris Valley): in a yard (the same as MAMA XI 131 (1956/22)).
- Description:
- White marble statuette on a low base, depicting three female figures (heads broken off) standing back-to-back, each wearing ankle-length chiton and short peplos belted at the waist with a reef-knot. Each figure holds flaming torches in left and right hands.
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 0.57+; W. 0.34 (base); Th. 0.17 (base).
- Record:
- MB notebook copy; photograph (1956/23).
- Publication:
- None.
- Date:
- Roman imperial period.
Illustrations:
MAMA XI 132 (Upper Tembris Valley 1: 1956-23)
MAMA XI 132 (Upper Tembris Valley 1: 1956-23)
MAMA XI 132 (Upper Tembris Valley 1: 1956-23)
The threefold Hekate carrying torches in each hand is depicted on five funerary reliefs from the upper Tembris valley, collected and discussed by Lochman 1990. A very similar statuette, with the three goddesses standing back to back, holding a flaming torch in each hand, was seen by Cox and Cameron at Akça Köy, 14km north of Çalköy (MAMA X 171); cf. also MAMA VI 402 (Emirdağ). For two further statuettes of this type, one in the Musée Rodin in Paris, the other in the Louvre, and probably both deriving from the upper Tembris valley, see Lochman 1990: 460-1, n.31. On the cult of Hekate in Phrygia, see further Robert, Hellenica X, 115 n.2.
It is likely enough that this statuette derives from the same rural sanctuary as MAMA XI 131 (1956/22: dedication to the ‘four-faced’ goddess).