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Figurines grecques en contexte

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Stéphanie Huysecom-Haxhi
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Arthur Muller

4. Quelles fonctions pour les terres cuites en contextes profanes ?

Defining a Cultic Context at the Mycenaean Potter’s Workshop at Mastos (Berbati Valley) through the Assemblage of Figures and Figurines

Identification d’un contexte cultuel dans l’atelier de potier de Mastos (vallée de Berbati) à travers l’assemblage de statuettes et figurines

Ann-Louise Schallin

Abstract

Un assemblage de figurines et statuettes est soumis ici à une analyse cognitive et archéologique en vue de l’identification d’un éventuel contexte cultuel. Les objets en question ont été recueillis durant les années 1930 et 50 dans l’atelier de potier du site mycénien de Mastos (vallée de Berbati, Argolide). Ils sont rapprochés de deux ensembles comparables, de Philakopi et de Midea, afin de déterminer la nature de leur contexte originel. Cette analyse suggère que durant l’Helladique récent un lieu de culte domestique ou un sanctuaire a très probablement existé à Mastos.

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1. Mycenaean figures and figurines

1.1. Typology, chronology

The study of Mycenaean terracotta figures and figurines started in the 19th century when Heinrich Schliemann conducted excavations at Mycenae and Tiryns in the Argolid1 and Adolf Furtwängler explored the Temple of Aphaia on Aegina.2 Much later Elizabeth French provided Aegean Bronze Age archaeologists with a most useful, comprehensive collection of all types of Mycenaean figurines.3 It is clear that Mycenaean figurines are most common at Late Helladic sites, in settlements as well as in tombs. Unfortunately, the great majority of figurines do not come from floor deposits, which would have helped identify their function. Figurines’ presence is not indicative ipso facto of a cult area, as French4 and a number of scholars have emphasized. Handmade and relatively small Mycenaean terracottas are termed figurines, while the larger wheelmade terracottas are called figures. The Mycenaean figurines are divided between animal (Wavy, L...

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Department of History, Gothenburg University, Sweden.

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