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14. Il santuario di Zeus Meilichios a Selinunte: Dati e materiali inediti per la rilettura del contesto

From the book The Akragas Dialogue

  • Francesca Spatafora

Abstract

This paper introduces an archaeological context that comes from the storerooms of the ‘A. Salinas’ museum and has remained unpublished for fifty years. It includes the materials from the excavations carried out by Vincenzo Tusa in 1969 and 1970 in the Sanctuary of Zeus Meilichios at Selinunte. This excavation covered an area of over 500 square meters, and was situated to the North of the ‘Temple of Demeter’. In addition to a large amount of materials spread throughout the layers of sand, Tusa’s excavations discovered three hundred depositions / offerings. In some cases the offerings were simple rough stones; in others cases they were stones inscribed with symbols or inscriptions. The offerings consisted of groups of materials (e.g. pottery, terracotta figurines, and bronzes), which are distributed chronologically between the 6th and 5th cent. B.C. This archaeological context will be further explored in the near future, but can already offer several possible interpretations. It provides many useful elements for defining aspects of the sanctuary in terms of the spaces, the cults, the ceremonies, and the ritual actions that took place there.

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