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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/38506| Title: | Two altars dedicated to Demeter : the goddess of fertility |
| Authors: | Anabolu, Mukerrem Usman |
| Keywords: | Demeter (Greek deity) -- Cult Fertility cults -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- Congresses Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone (Corinth, Greece) Corinth (Greece) -- Antiquities |
| Issue Date: | 1986 |
| Publisher: | University of Malta Press |
| Citation: | Anabolu, M. U. (1986). Two altars dedicated to Demeter : the goddess of fertility. In A. Bonanno (Ed.), Archaeology and Fertility Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean: papers presented at the First International Conference on Archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean, 2-5 September 1985 (pp. 267-271). Malta: University of Malta Press. |
| Abstract: | Two altars decorated with bucrania and garlands and carrying inscriptions dedicated to Demeter are the subject of this paper. The first one was discovered in Sardis and is housed in the Museum of Manisa (Inv. No. 244). The second altar, dedicated to Demeter Karpophoros (Demeter the Basket Carrier), comes from Ephesos and is exhibited in the Museum of Selcuk. They belong to the late Hellenistic and to the Roman Imperial period respectively. A third altar, from Sardis, is also dedicated to Demeter Karpophoros, but lacks bucrania and garlands. There are two excavated temples dedicated to Demeter in Western Asia Minor, one in Priene and the other in Pergamon. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/38506 |
| ISBN: | 9060322886 |
| Appears in Collections: | Archaeology and fertility cult in the Ancient Mediterranean |
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