AN HELLENISTIC STYLE TERRACOTTA FROM THE OLIVAL DO SENHOR DOS MÁRTIRES NECROPOLIS (ALCÁCER DO SAL): BRIEF NOTES.

Authors

  • Francisco B. Gomes UNIARQ – Centro de Arqueologia da Universidade de Lisboa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-8657_53_3

Keywords:

terracotta, kourotrophos, Olival do Senhor dos Mártires, hellenistic iconography, funerary ritual

Abstract

A detailed description of a terracotta exhumed by Vergílio Correia in the 1920s in the necropolis of Olival do Senhor dos Mártires is presented. It corresponds to a kourotrophos type figure dating to the roman republican period which is integrated in an iconographic model of Hellenistic background well known in the Central and Western Mediterranean but rare in the Western Iberian Peninsula. It is in all likelihood the representation of a nourishing and psychopomp deity difficult to identify which was plausibly used in the context of funerary rites and cult.

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Published

2018-01-09

How to Cite

Gomes, F. B. (2018). AN HELLENISTIC STYLE TERRACOTTA FROM THE OLIVAL DO SENHOR DOS MÁRTIRES NECROPOLIS (ALCÁCER DO SAL): BRIEF NOTES. Conimbriga, 53, pp. 81-97. https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-8657_53_3

Issue

Vol. 53 (2014): Conímbriga v. 53

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