Votive reliefs / by Carol L. Lawton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lawton, Carol L., author.

Series:

Athenian Agora ; v. 38.

The Athenian Agora : results of excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens ; volume XXXVIII

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social archaeology.

Votive offerings.

Shrines.

Relief (Sculpture), Roman.

Relief (Sculpture), Hellenistic.

Relief (Sculpture), Classical.

Agora (Athens, Greece).

Athens (Greece)--Antiquities.

Athens (Greece).

Excavations (Archaeology)--Greece--Athens.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Greece--Athens.

Relief (Sculpture), Classical--Greece--Athens.

Relief (Sculpture), Hellenistic--Greece--Athens.

Relief (Sculpture), Roman--Greece--Athens.

Shrines--Greece--Athens.

Votive offerings--Greece--Athens.

Athens (Greece)--Religious life and customs.

Social archaeology--Greece--Athens.

Physical Description:

xxv, 150 pages, 60 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2017.

Summary:

"This volume includes all of the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman votive reliefs found to date in the excavations of the Athenian Agora. In addition to providing a catalogue of the reliefs arranged according to their subjects, the author treats the history of their discovery, their production and workmanship, iconography, and function. A large part of the study is devoted to discussion of the original contexts of the reliefs, in an attempt to determine their relationship to shrines in the vicinity and to investigate what they can tell us about the character of religious activity in the vicinity of the Agora. The work will be an important reference for historians of Greek art as well as of Greek religio"--Publisher description.

Contents:

Introduction: History of excavation and contexts; history of scholarship; chronology; the deities, heroes, and their shrines; the dedicators; production; iconography; function; introduction to the catalogue

Catalogue: Deities (1/81)

Catalogue: Heroes and heroines (82/141)

Catalogue: Worshippers (142/185)

Catalogue: Anatomical votives (186/194)

Catalogue: Unfinished votive reliefs, reliefs of uncertain content (195/224)

Concordance of inventory and catalogue numbers

General index

Index of museums

Index of inscriptions

Index of ancient authors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages xiii-xxv) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780876612385

0876612389

OCLC:

980302529