Industrial Religion : the Saucer Pyres of the Athenian Agora.

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Book

Author/Creator:

Rotroff, Susan.

Language:

English

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1 online resource

Place of Publication:

American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2014.

Summary:

This study focuses on the ""saucer pyres, "" a series of 70 deposits excavated in the residential and industrial areas bordering the Athenian Agora. Each consisted of a shallow pit, its floor sometimes marked by heavy burning, with a votive deposit of pottery and fragments of burnt bone, ash, and charcoal. Most of the pots were miniatures (including the eponymous saucers) but a few larger vessels were found, along with offerings associated with funerary cult. The deposits represent a largely Athenian phenomenon, with few parallels elsewherre. When first found in the 1930s, the deposits were int.

Contents:

Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; Challenges and Methodology; The Pyres Explained: Earlier Scholarship; Chapter 2: The Agora Pyres: The Data; Spatial Distribution; Modes of Deposition; The Offerings; Chapter 3: Chronology; The Evidence for Dating; Chronological Development; Chapter 4: Toward a New Interpretation; Pyres as Building Deposits; The Chthonic Nature of Saucer Pyres; A New Explanation: Industrial Religion; Unanswered Questions; Chapter 5: Afterword; Catalogue; North of the Agora Square; Kolonos Agoraios; Southwest of the Agora Square; South of the Areopagus.

South of the Agora SquareEast of the Agora Square; Appendix I: Analysis of Charcoal in Some Agora Pyres; Appendix II: Other Settlement Pyres in Attica; Appendix III: Graveside Pyres in Attica; Appendix IV: Pyrelike Deposits outside of Attica; References; Indexes; General Index; Index of Objects; Index of Deposits.

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ISBN:

1306408989

9781306408981

OCLC:

870088398

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