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The Sanctuary of Pasikrata at Demetrias Ieremias, Stelios
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During excavations of the city walls and the south cemetery by A.S. Arvanitopoulos from 1912 to 1915, several sanctuary deposits were revealed just outside a gate of the wall of Demetrias in the southern cemetery. The deposits yielded a wealth of finds: a life-size marble head, marble statuettes (some of which depict Artemis and Aphrodite), inscribed votive stelai and incense burners (miniature altars) mentioning Pasikrata and Artemis En(n)odia, clay vases and lamps, a large clay bust, numerous terracotta figurines, depicting women, men, and children, among which a significant number of kausia boy figurines. In the past, Nikolaos Papachatzis had interpreted the deity as “Aphrodite of the Dead”. However, Maria Stamatopoulou's research on the excavation archives and the re-evaluation of the finds has argued that the worshipped deity(/-ies) had a kourotrophic nature, protecting life passages of children and women.
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The Sanctuary of Pasikrata at Demetrias
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Database of Religious History (DRH)
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2022-03-11
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| Description |
During excavations of the city walls and the south cemetery by A.S. Arvanitopoulos from 1912 to 1915, several sanctuary deposits were revealed just outside a gate of the wall of Demetrias in the southern cemetery. The deposits yielded a wealth of finds: a life-size marble head, marble statuettes (some of which depict Artemis and Aphrodite), inscribed votive stelai and incense burners (miniature altars) mentioning Pasikrata and Artemis En(n)odia, clay vases and lamps, a large clay bust, numerous terracotta figurines, depicting women, men, and children, among which a significant number of kausia boy figurines. In the past, Nikolaos Papachatzis had interpreted the deity as “Aphrodite of the Dead”. However, Maria Stamatopoulou's research on the excavation archives and the re-evaluation of the finds has argued that the worshipped deity(/-ies) had a kourotrophic nature, protecting life passages of children and women.
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eng
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2022-11-23
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution 4.0 International
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10.14288/1.0422071
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Stelios Ieremias. (2022). The Sanctuary of Pasikrata at Demetrias. Database of Religious History, Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia.
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Unreviewed
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Postdoctoral
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