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The Sanctuary of Artemis Soteira in the Kerameikos of Athens
Cover -- Title Pages -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preliminaries -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The So-Called Hekateion - a Detective Story About the History of Research and Its Consequences -- 1.1.1 Discovery and First Excavation of the Sanctuary by Kyriakos Mylonas in 1890 -- 1.1.2 Excavation Campaigns fro...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Online-Ressource Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Wiesbaden
: Harrassowitz Verlag
, 2020
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed |
| Schriftenreihe: | Philippika Altertumskundliche Abhandlungen
v.136 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Cover -- Title Pages -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preliminaries -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The So-Called Hekateion - a Detective Story About the History of Research and Its Consequences -- 1.1.1 Discovery and First Excavation of the Sanctuary by Kyriakos Mylonas in 1890 -- 1.1.2 Excavation Campaigns from 1907 to 1915 by Alfred Brueckner and the Sondage of Camillo Praschniker and Konstantinos Rhomaios in 1910 -- 1.1.3 The First Restoration Works Carried Out by Alfred Brueckner and Hubert Knackfuß in 1914/1915 -- 1.1.4 Post-Second-World-War Restoration Carried Out by Dieter Ohly -- 1.1.5 Work Conducted During the Era of Franz Willemsen (1961-1975) -- 1.1.6 Work Conducted During the Directorship of Ursula Knigge (1975-1995) -- 1.1.7 The Cleaning Campaigns in 2012 and 2013 and the Following Restoration Work Under the Auspices of Jutta Stroszeck -- 1.1.8 The Excavation Campaign 2015 Under the Directorship of Jutta Stroszeck - a Sanctuary Within the Sanctuary -- 1.1.9 History of Research on the temenos and Certain Finds With Provenance in the Sanctuary -- 1.2 Approaching What Is Already Known? Methodology of the Investigation At Hand -- 2 Back to the Beginning: Reconstructing the Archaeological Evidence at the Time of the Discovery -- 2.1 The Enclosing Walls -- 2.2 Built Structures Used for Ritual Practice -- 2.2.1 The Rectangular Block-Shaped Altar and the Adjacent Table -- 2.2.2 The Basis With the Prismatic Recess -- 2.2.3 The Omphaloid Monument and Its Substructure -- 2.3 Further Built Structures Within the temenos -- 2.3.1 Well B 18 and Its Phases of Use -- 2.3.2 The Cylindrical Lime Stone Block: a Possible Sundial -- 3 Finds From the temenos Area and Their Critical Evaluation -- 3.1 Potential Biases of the Small Finds -- 3.2 Analysis of the Finds - Chronology, Original Provenance of the Artefacts, and Function in the Sanctuary. 4 The Spatial and Temporal Setting of the temenos: the Development of the Area South to the Street of the Tombs -- 4.1 Geological, Economical and Historical Factors -- 4.2 The Earliest Archaeologically Attested Structures Along the Street of the Tombs -- 4.3 The Late 5th Century BCE -- 4.4 The Conception of the Necropolis Along the Street of the Tombs from 394/3 BCE until the Restriction of Funerary Expenses by Demetrios of Phaleron -- 4.5 The Area Behind the First Row of Grave Precincts and Its Use After Demetrios of Phaleron -- 4.6 The Establishment of the Sanctuary in the Early Hellenistic Period -- 4.7 The Sanctuary and the Surrounding Necropolis During the Hellenistic Period -- 4.8 The Sanctuary and Necropolis During the Roman Period -- 4.9 The Area's Last Phase of Use and the End of the Sanctuary -- 5 The Cult Recipients -- 5.1 Presupposing Hekate: the Arguments of the First Researchers and Their Refutation -- 5.2 The Attribution of the Sanctuary to Artemis Soteira -- 5.2.1 Who Was Artemis Soteira to the Athenians? -- 5.2.2 Iconography of Artemis Soteira -- 5.3 Another Possible Cult Recipient? The Votive Relief for Bendis -- 5.4 A 3rd Century CE Addition: the manteion of Paian -- 6 Cult Organisation and Retraceable Ritual Practice in the Sanctuary of Artemis Soteira -- 6.1 Cult Administration -- 6.1.1 The Founding and Administration of the Cult -- 6.1.2 The 1st Century BCE: the Cult Association of the Soteriasts -- 6.1.3 The Sanctuary of Artemis Soteira: the Cult Precinct of a Funerary Association? -- 6.2 Indications for Cult Practice Within the temenos -- 6.2.1 Founding a Sanctuary -- 6.2.2 Cleansing Rituals Along the Boundaries of the temenos -- 6.2.3 Cleansing Rituals Within the temenos -- 6.2.4 Sacrificial Rituals -- 6.2.5 Dedicatory Rituals -- 6.2.6 Mantic Rituals -- 6.2.7 Purely Performative Rituals. 7 Artemis Soteira and Attica's Cult Topography -- 7.1 Ancient Greek Religion in Context -- 7.1.1 Athenian Religion -- 7.1.2 Religious Networks and Spatial Entanglements -- 7.1.3 The Relevance of Cults to Community/ies and the Establishment of Cult Centres -- 7.1.4 Religious Life at the Kerameikos Site -- 7.2 Artemis Soteira, Bendis and Their Role Within the Athenian Religion -- 7.2.1 The Attic Cult Topography of Artemis Soteira and Bendis -- 7.2.2 Diachronic Aspects of the Cults and the Cult Topography of Artemis Soteira and Bendis -- 7.2.3 Hindered Religious Practice - Substitute Sanctuaries? A Proposal -- 8 Summary and Outlook -- 9 Summaries in German and Modern Greek -- 9.1 Zusammenfassung -- 9.2 Περίληψη -- 10 Catalogue -- 10.1 Construction Survey of the Walls in the Area of the temenos -- 10.2 Finds from the temenos -- Inscriptions (Cat. 1-Cat. 15) -- Sculpture (Cat. 16-Cat. 25) -- Statuary (Cat. 16 and Cat. 17) -- Relief (Cat. 18-Cat. 21) -- Furnishings (Cat. 22-Cat. 25) -- Pottery (Cat. 26-Cat. 86) -- Debris of Pottery Production (Cat. 26-Cat. 50) -- Others (Cat. 51-Cat. 79) -- Terracotta (Cat. 80-Cat. 84) -- Lamps (Cat. 85 and Cat. 86) -- Architecture (Cat. 87 and Cat. 88) -- Various (Cat. 89 and Cat. 90) -- Illustration Credits -- Bibliography -- Indices -- Plates. In 1890, a newly discovered sanctuary was excavated in the necropolis on the famous Kerameikos of Athens. Guided by the ancient written sources and the expectations of his day, the excavator Kyriakos Mylonas interpreted the precinct as an Imperial Roman sanctuary of the goddess Hekate. In ancient texts, this deity is commonly associated with magical rituals and binding spells, and lead tablets used for such purposes have been found in graves all over the Greek world, including those of the Kerameikos necropolis. Due to the location of the sanctuary among the tombs and Mylonas' interpretation of the site as belonging to this striking deity, researchers came to treat it as an unambiguously attested cult place of Hekate, even though the archaeological discoveries had not yet been fully published. This volume is dedicated to this task. By conducting an in-depth analysis of the site's entangled excavation and research history together with a new investigation of the actual archaeological findings, Constanze Graml not only re-dates the district to the Hellenistic period, but also reassigns it to the goddess Artemis Soteira. Based on these results, the sanctuary's embedding and role in the cult topography of Athens and Attica can finally be seen in new light |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (318 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9783447199100 |
