(n. 5), p. It thus may be just a gift, which seemed precious enough to the visitor to be offered.To our first group of votives, which can be offered to various goddesses who protect life in general, belong two statuettes of the so called Spes-Type, direct imports from Corinth.for Artemis but not specially the Artemis of Lousoi, l.c. In this article, a choice of votive offerings for Artemis Hemera at Lousoi is discussed, viewed under various aspects. (n. 39), frontis piece and fig. (n. 5), p. The architectural remnants though — the foundations of the big temple Several written sources give information on myth and history: texts by Bakchylides,Small bronze inscriptions of the fourth and third centuries fixed on the door of the so called propylon mention resolutions of the polis of Lousoi on awards of proxenia, euergesia and thearodokia. Sometimes the term maiden goddess is applied to any goddess who doesn’t marry and/or have […]To learn more about the Otherworldly Oracle’s website Privacy Policy, visit our Les Hemerasia comportaient des compétitions de courses à pied, de diaulos et des courses de char.

A Study of the Development of the Kore Type in Greek Sculpture, London, 1968, p. 23-36; for the statue from Eleutherna see N. 650 BC; ibid., for the statue of Auxerre, p. 236, no. She’s wild in more than one way – a forest-dweller and hunter who lives outside the monotonous laws of society. a slight difference there.I never worked with a deity… Because i never felt a sign. “Young girls began to prepare for the event of the first childbirth at an early age. Le deuxième groupe votif concerne la déesse Artémis en général et pas spécialement l’Artémis de Lousoi.

Trying to emphasize some of these points of view, I choose from the given questionnaire those questions which can be brought to bear on our The sanctuary: its topography and chronologies. Journal des histoires. Pausanias (VIII, 18, 8) mentions her as which alludes, according to A. Wilhelm, to the games in honour of the goddess. Les offrandes sont divisées en trois groupes, selon ce qu’elles peuvent nous dire à propos de la divinité liée au sanctuaire. 25 and three fragments of the new excavations, Tk 4b/87, Tk 23/89 and Tk 7/95, see R.A. Catalogue of the Terracottas in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum New York, 1967, p. 28, pl 10 D, a simple draped statuette from Knossos, mid-7 cent., Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, no. They in consequence may be compared to the young girls dancing and running on the krateriskoi found in Brauron and elsewhere in Attica, published by L. Kahil.Small cylindrical spools, cut out from sheet bronze, sometimes quite simple and without decoration, sometimes decorated with the known repoussé elements, were, as Ulrich Sinn has suggested,For comparison, we add an example from Dodona, which reads An interesting group from the end of the fourth or the early third century, is represented by ten small boxes or fragments of them, made either of cut-out bronze-sheet, or assembled from cast bronze parts. id., FrUhgriechische Kunst, Kunst und Siedlung im geometrischen Griechenland, , “Ein geometrischer Bronzekàfer aus dem Artemisheiligtum in Lousoi,” in For some of these we don’t exclude local production, as the process did not need impor- tant installations, although similar objects occur elsewhere, La dea di Sibari e il Santuario ritrovato. She couldn’t be captured, wed, or tamed. I discovered this on the 6th which apparently the number 6 is sacred to her. Two silver coins from the nearby town of Pheneos, dated to the late fifth/ early fourth century, and to the early fourth century, are remarkable; they show a bull and a goat on their reverse.