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The Cave of the Nymphs at Pharsalos Canlas, Gino

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On the north slope of a hill called Karaplas, 1 km to the southwest of the city of Farsala (ancient Pharsalos), is a cave, well-hidden by its location on a small cliff and the surrounding vegetation. The site was first studied in the 1920's by the Italian Archaeological School at Athens. The cave was discovered to have been a sanctuary to the nymphs, as was ascertained by the two inscriptions carved at the entrance of the cave, as well as numerous votive terracotta figurines offered at the site. The finds at the site date from the 6th c. BCE to the end of Antiquity but the site was only certainly in use as a sanctuary from the 5th c. BCE to the Hellenistic period.

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Title
The Cave of the Nymphs at Pharsalos
Creator
Canlas, Gino
Contributor
Database of Religious History (DRH)
Publisher
Database of Religious History (DRH)
Date Issued
2021-09-14
Description
On the north slope of a hill called Karaplas, 1 km to the southwest of the city of Farsala (ancient Pharsalos), is a cave, well-hidden by its location on a small cliff and the surrounding vegetation. The site was first studied in the 1920's by the Italian Archaeological School at Athens. The cave was discovered to have been a sanctuary to the nymphs, as was ascertained by the two inscriptions carved at the entrance of the cave, as well as numerous votive terracotta figurines offered at the site. The finds at the site date from the 6th c. BCE to the end of Antiquity but the site was only certainly in use as a sanctuary from the 5th c. BCE to the Hellenistic period.
Subject
Indo-European Religion; Graeco-Roman; Greece; Hellenistic Religions; Sacred Groves; Cave Shrines; Nature Sanctuaries; Open-Air Sanctuary; Shrine; Religious Place; Greek Religions; Greek Cult; Aegean; Religious Group; Thessaly
Genre
Other
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2021-12-03
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0404484
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/80367
Affiliation
Arts, Faculty of; Asian Studies, Department of
Citation
Gino Canlas. (2021). The Cave of the Nymphs at Pharsalos. Database of Religious History, Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia.
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Postdoctoral
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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