Divine Images Cult Statues in the Ancient Greek World.
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Divine Images
Cult Statues in the Ancient Greek World
Samian coins with cult image of Hera: Roman Imperial period
Plan of the citadel at Tiryns
First Hekatompedon at Samos
First Heraion on Samos:
reconstruction; 7th c.
Reconstruction of Apollo temple at
Dreros, Crete, interior, ca. 700 BCE
Apollo, Leto and Artemis from the temple at Dreros,
ca. 700 BCE
Samian Heraion: successive
stages
Goddess from Karphi, Crete ca. 1000 BCE
Votive plaque from the Athenian Acropolis, ca. 650-600
Goddess with upraised arms on a krater from
Vienna.
The “smiting god”: Bronze Age example from Cyprus and Greek Zeus from Ugento.
Two images from Gazi in Crete, LBA
Horned god from Enkomi, end of 13th c.
BCE
BM 118931, relief from the palace of Tiglath-Pileser III
Relief panels 1-3 from Room 64, Palace of Sennacherib in Nineveh
Neo-Assyrian relief from Maltaya Iraq, ca. 700. King supplicates deities mounted on animals
Lady of Phylakopi, Melos
LHIIIB 2
Athena Parthenos reconstruction
Herm from Siphnos
Image of Nemesis at Rhamnous by
Agorakritos, Attica, 5th century
Diomedes and the Palladion, Athenian red-figure cup, 5th c.
Acrolithic statues from Magna Graecia, 5th century BCE.
Cult images in terracotta from Grammichele and Paestum, height
about 90 cm each
Apollo in his temple: fragment of a red-figured krater from Taranto.
Maria Rubio with the “Jesus
tortilla”
Greek “voodoo doll”
Athena Parthenos by
Pheidias
Temple images: the two-category model
TRUE CULT IMAGE Elaborate VOTIVE OFFERING
Small size Large size or colossal
Age: ca. 8th-7th cent. Age: ca. 5th-4th cent.
Wood Stone or chryselephantine
Miraculous or legendary origin Created by noted sculptor
Little artistic merit Great artistic merit
Manipulated during ritual Immobile, not focus of ritual
Full of numinous power; access restricted
Access encouraged for prestige value
Artemis of Ephesos, Roman copy and modern
reconstruction
Madonna delle Lacrime from Syracuse: mass-
produced chalkware image of the madonna ca. 1954
Michelangelo’s Pietà used as a cult image
Zeus at Olympia by Pheidias, reconstructions