Ausgrabungen im Südostgebiet des Heraion von Samos
https://doi.org/10.34780/t7aa-4w35
Synopsis
This volume presents the results of the excavations carried out in the years 1983, 1984 and 1991 in the peripheral south-east area of the Heraion of Samos. This area is of particular interest archaeologically because substantial amounts of votives were moved here from the sanctuary in antiquity. This spoil, as the earlier excavations in this area showed, is archaeological source material that offers an uncommonly broad and multiform spectrum of votive figures and objects which, both as individual items and as a whole, enrich our view of the Archaic Heraion of Samos as a ritual site and moreover reflect the diverse overseas contacts of the island state of Samos. A peculiar feature of the soil to the south-east of the Heraion is that it offers favourable conditions for the preservation of organic material, namely in strata that have lain continuously in groundwater. To this is due the remarkable abundance of wooden votives from the Archaic period, with finds constantly coming to light in excavations in this area. Relicts of a branch of Archaic Greek craft that once affected all spheres of life but is now otherwise almost entirely lost, these wooden finds from the Heraion possess unique value as archaeological and cultural historical testimony.
Keywords:
Samos, Heraion, votive, sanctuaryChapters
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Vorwort
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1 Lage, Zielsetzung und Methode der Ausgrabungen
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2 Erd- und Baubefunde, Stratigraphie
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3 Brunnen
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4 Die Funde
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Zerstörung und Deponierung der Votive
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Zur Frage der Aufbewahrung hölzerner Möbel und Geräte und anderer Votive im Heraion
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Charakteristische Fundgruppen
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5 Kommentierter Fundkatalog
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I Bronzen
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II Terrakotten
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III Holz
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IV Elfenbein
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V Stein
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VI Fayence
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VII Tridacna-Muscheln
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VIII Verschiedenes
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Nachtrag
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I Bronzen
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Verzeichnis der Abkürzungen
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Abbildungsnachweis
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Tafeln 1–80
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Tafeln 81–97
