Divine Images

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Divine Images

• Cult Statues in the Ancient Greek World

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Samian coins with cult image of Hera Roman
Imperial period
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Plan of the citadel at Tiryns
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First Hekatompedon at Samos
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First Heraion on Samos reconstruction 7th c.
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Reconstruction of Apollo temple at Dreros, Crete,
interior, ca. 700 BCE
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Apollo, Leto and Artemis from the temple at
Dreros, ca. 700 BCE
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Samian Heraion successive stages
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Goddess from Karphi, Crete ca. 1000 BCE
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Votive plaque from the Athenian Acropolis, ca.
650-600
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Goddess with upraised arms on a krater from
Vienna.
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The smiting god Bronze Age example from Cyprus
and Greek Zeus from Ugento.
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Two images from Gazi in Crete, LBA
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Horned god from Enkomi, end of 13th c. BCE
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BM 118931, relief from the palace of
Tiglath-Pileser III
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Relief panels 1-3 from Room 64, Palace of
Sennacherib in Nineveh
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Neo-Assyrian relief from Maltaya Iraq, ca. 700.
King supplicates deities mounted on animals
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Lady of Phylakopi, Melos LHIIIB 2
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Athena Parthenos reconstruction
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Herm from Siphnos
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Image of Nemesis at Rhamnous by Agorakritos,
Attica, 5th century
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Diomedes and the Palladion, Athenian red-figure
cup, 5th c.
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Acrolithic statues from Magna Graecia, 5th
century BCE.
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Cult images in terracotta from Grammichele and
Paestum, height about 90 cm each
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Apollo in his temple fragment of a red-figured
krater from Taranto.
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Maria Rubio with the Jesus tortilla
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Greek voodoo doll
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Athena Parthenos by Pheidias
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Temple images the two-category model
TRUE CULT IMAGE Elaborate VOTIVE OFFERING
Small size Large size or colossal
Age ca. 8th-7th cent. Age ca. 5th-4th cent.
Wood Stone or chryselephantine
Miraculous or legendary origin Created by noted sculptor
Little artistic merit Great artistic merit
Manipulated during ritual Immobile, not focus of ritual
Full of numinous power access restricted Access encouraged for prestige value
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Artemis of Ephesos, Roman copy and modern
reconstruction
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Madonna delle Lacrime from Syracuse
mass-produced chalkware image of the madonna ca.
1954
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Michelangelos Pietà used as a cult image
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Zeus at Olympia by Pheidias, reconstructions