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Figurines de terre cuite en Méditerranée grecque et romaine

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Arthur Muller
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Animal Terracottas from Children Graves at Opuntian Locris

Figurines d’animaux dans des tombes d’enfants en Locride Opontienne

Maria Selekou

Zusammenfassung

In the territory of Opuntian Locris, near Kynos, the harbour of ancient Opous, is a cemetery of 80 graves – only inhumation in large pithoi and amphoras – dating from the late Archaic period to the 2nd century BC. The terracotta animals presented here were found in seven children burials from the Classical period. Most of them have mouldmade upper bodies, while their legs and the lower surfaces are handmade. Figurines of pigs, doves, horses (with and without riders), turtles, cocks, and bulls were found. They were probably produced by a local workshop that in some cases copied imported models. The types are also common in other parts of Greece, such as Boeotia, Attica, Corinth, Olynthus, and Rhodes during the 5th century BC. Their presence in children graves has apotropaic significance, but the figurines can also be interpreted as simple children’s playthings.

Indexeinträge

Keywords :

child, Opous, cemeteries, animal

Géographique :

Grèce, Locride

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Homer was the first to characterize the region opposite “sacred Euboea” as Locris, in which he mentions eight cities and one river (Iliad ΙΙ 527-535). In antiquity Locris was divided into two parts: Eastern and Western Locris. According to Strabo (IX 2.13-18 and IX 4.1-7), Eastern Locris stretched from Thermopylai in the north to ancient Halai in the south (fig. 1). The east side of Eastern Locris was called “Opuntian”, the adjective used to designate the residents around the ancient city of Opous.1 Opuntian Locris appears for the first time as a participant in the expedition against Troy in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Iliad ΙΙ 531). Ancient Opous was noted also as the homeland of Patroklos.

Fig. 1. – Map of Locris from Thermopylai in the north to ancient Halai in the south.

Image

The cemetery of Livanates.

1. Context and assemblage

The necropolis, one of the most important in the region, is located 2 km west of modern Livanates2 at the site of Triantaphyllia near Kynos,3 the harbour of a...

Autor

Ministry of Culture, Athens, Greece.

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