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Title: | Quale rito per la dea? Pratiche del sacro nel santuario di Tas-Silġ a Malta | Authors: | Bonzano, Francesca | Keywords: | Maltese Archaeology; Sanctuary of Tas-Silġ; Phoenician sanctuaries; Cult practice; Phoenician Punic Archaeology | Issue Date: | 15-Jun-2016 | Publisher: | EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste | Source: | Francesca Bonzano, “Quale rito per la dea? Pratiche del sacro nel santuario di Tas-Silġ a Malta", in: "Sacrum facere. Atti del III Seminario di Archeologia del Sacro. Lo spazio del ‘sacro’: ambienti e gesti del rito.” a cura di Federica Fontana ed Emanuela Murgia, Trieste, 3-4 ottobre 2014", EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, Trieste, 2016, pp. 147-175 | Series/Report no.: | Polymnia: Collana di Scienze dell'Antichità. Studi di Archeologia 7 |
Abstract: | The paper analyses the ritual practices recorded in the Tas-Silġ sanctuary, in the island of Malta, focusing on what features can be retraced for the historical phases prior to the Late republican age, between 8th and 2nd century BC. The first period (8th-5th century BC) refers to the Phoenician phase of the site: the new structures do not seem to interfere with the prehistoric temple, which is kept unaltered. The worshipped deity – known from the inscriptions – is Astarte: the complex personality of the goddess, featuring traits belonging to the local tradition, has marked chthonian characters, as testified by the existence of the recently explored hypogeum structures. The new elements added in the sacrificial area over the timespan between 4th and 2nd century BC reveal a new openness towards Mediterranean influences; the hypogeum is not used for rituals anymore, and the chthonian traits of the cult clearly lose strenghth, probably under the influence of the new cultural context. |
Type: | Article | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10077/12891 | ISSN: | 978-88-8303-679-8 | eISBN: | 978-88-8303-680-4 |
Appears in Collections: | Polymnia. Studi di archeologia n.07 |
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