The sanctuary of Artemis Soteira in the Kerameikos of Athens /

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 te...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Graml, Constanze (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, [2020]
Colección:Philippika / Altertumskundliche Abhandlungen.
Temas:
Artemis > (Greek deity) > Cult.
Artemis > (Greek deity)
Temples > Greece > Athens.
Cults
Temples
Sanctuary of Artemis Soteira (Greece)
Kerameikos (Athens, Greece)
Céramique (Athènes, Grèce)
Greece > Athens
Greece > Athens > Kerameikos
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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?

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