evidence collected by Landersdorfer, βααλ τετραμορφος [Paderborn: Schöningh, 1918], contrary to his intent, all bears on four-faced deities whose faces are the same; cf. the rationale given by Basil of Caesaria [fourth century] for the four-faced idol ascribed to Manasseh [J. Migne, Patrologia Graeca, CXXI, p. 228; cited by Landersdorfer, p. 7], “so that one might pray to the images from whatever side one approached” [ = Deuteronomy Rabba 2.20]—necessarily based on the idol’s showing the same aspect
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