Votive offerings at the Sanctuary of Artemis in Thassos: Agencies and materiality in women's lives in the archaic period
Juliana Figueira Da Hora  1@  
1 : Universidade de São Paulo = University of São Paulo

This presentation aims to show the results of the analysis of the objects in the context of the Artemision of Thassos from the Archaic period. We focus our analysis on these questions: what can we infer about the objects listed in the contexts indicated? Why did the Artemision stand out in quantity and what is its relationship with the social dynamics of women in Thassos in the archaic period? What was the role of the painters to whom the lekanes of Black Figures in Thassos, predominantly in the sanctuary, were attributed? What can the protective epiclesis of Artemis tell us from their materiality? Can we say that the Artemis-Hecate facet was already latent in the archaic period? In this way, we have arrived at some interpretative results based on the relationship between objects and the corresponding areas, such as: the aspects of the feminine and the cult unveiled by materiality; the intrinsic relationship between the cult area and its choice in the spatial configuration by Paros; through materiality, it was possible to reveal chthonic and magical cults that show an individual religiosity in the civic process; the work of local and regional painters in the workshops producing vases for the sanctuary; the attendance of women, their individual choices, needs and fears. New approaches to Greek religion in recent works try to extract a new perspective on belief in the field of religion, from the point of view of the lived experience of cults and rituals, focusing on the deities and the individual devotee. This perspective includes the agency of both the objects and the social and individual redemption of the experienced practice of worship. The Artemision, therefore, proved, through the data collected and the results obtained, to be a sanctuary that brought together different agents in the process, with the main deities as the basis for balancing the offerings for the maintenance of social life and the lives of individuals, with the objects offered as agents in this process.

 


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