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Architectural model with female figure

Π32613
Clay
Mended and restored on parts of the walls and base of the building, the roof and horns of consecration, and a few places on the figurine. The door is a modern reconstruction.
Height: 18 cm. (22 cm. with horns of consecration) Length of base: 14.4 cm. Width of base: 12.5 cm.
Galatas
Building 6
Late Bronze Age. Neopalatial period, Middle Minoan ΙΙΙA period.:
1700 - 1650 BC:
Gallery:
VII
Case:
73
Exhibition thematic unit:
Late Bronze Age - Neopalatial period (1700-1450 BC). Minoan religion - Domestic and open-air cult
Domestic shrines. Clay models. Religious images
Description
Model of a one-room building with a female figure seated facing the door. The roof was made separately to fit into the upper part of the building and was removable. Pieces of two pairs of horns of consecration found with the other fragments of the model have been restored on the front of the roof. The seated figure is roughly made, without details, but the breasts are clearly marked. On the head is a sort of diadem or headband, while the feet are resting on a footstool. The existence of a door is indicated by two small clay protrusions preserved on one side of the doorway. The lower one preserves traces of a vertical hole. The vertical axis around which the door pivoted would pass through the holes, allowing the door to be opened or shut, revealing or concealing the interior. The figurine may represent the epiphany of the goddess, ritually enacted by her priestess.
Bibliography:
Rethemiotakis, G. "A Shrine-Model from Galatas." In O. Krzyszkowska (ed.), Cretan Offerings. Studies in Honour of Peter Warren, BSA Studies 18, London, 2010: 293-302.
Author:
E. S.


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