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Stymphalos : the Acropolis sanctuary. Volume 1 / with contributions by Sandra Garvie-Lok, Christopher Hagerman, Monica Munaretto, Deborah Ruscillo, Gerald P. Schaus, Peter Stone, Mary Sturgeon, Laura Surtees, Robert Weir, Hector Williams, Alexis Young.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Phoenix. Supplementary volume (Toronto, Ont.) ; ; LIV.Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 499 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442662292
  • 1442662298
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Stymphalos. The Acropolis sanctuary. Vol. 1DDC classification:
  • 938 23
LOC classification:
  • DF221.S79 S79 2014eb
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Contents:
Introduction / Gerald P. Schaus (Wilfrid Laurier University, Archaeology and Classical Studies) -- Chapter 1: Ancient Sources and Early Travellers / Gerald P. Schaus Chapter 2: The Sanctuary: Site Description / Gerald P. Schaus Chapter 3: Sculpture from the Acropolis Sanctuary / Mary Sturgeon (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Art) -- Chapter 4: Coins from the Acropolis Sanctuary / Robert Weir (University of Windsor, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) -- Chapter 5: Weapons: Catapult Bolts, Arrowheads, Javelin- and Spear-heads, and Sling Bullets / Christopher Hagerman (Albion College, History Department) -- Chapter 6: Jewelry / Alexis Young (Wilfrid Laurier University, Archaeology and Classical Studies) -- Chapter 7: Miscellaneous Small Finds / Gerald P. Schaus Chapter 8: Iron Nails / Monica Munaretto (Wilfrid Laurier University, Archaeology and Classical Studies) -- and Gerald P. Schaus Chapter 9: Pottery of Building A / Peter Stone (Newcastle University, Head of School of Arts and Cultures) -- Chapter 10: Select Pottery / Gerald P. Schaus Chapter 11: Lamps / Hector Williams (University of British Columbia, Greek Art & Archaeology) -- Chapter 12: Loomweights / Laura Surtees (University of Pennsylvania, Classical Studies) -- Chapter 13: Faunal remains / Deborah Ruscillo (Washington University in St. Louis, Anthropology) -- Chapter 14: Human Skeletal Remains / Sandra Garvie-Lok (University of Alberta, Anthropology).
Summary: The buildings and artefacts uncovered by Canadian excavations at Stymphalos (1994--2001) shed light on the history and cult of a small sanctuary on the acropolis of the ancient city. The thirteen detailed studies collected in Stymphalos: The Acropolis Sanctuary illuminate a variety of aspects of the site. Epigraphical evidence confirms that both Athena and Eileithyia, goddess of childbirth, were worshipped in the sanctuary between the fourth and second centuries BCE. The temple and service buildings are modest in size and materials, but the temple floor and pillar shrine suggest that certain stones and bedrock outcrops were held as sacred objects. Earrings, finger rings, and other jewelry, along with almost 100 loomweights, indicate that women were prominent in cult observances. Many iron projectile points (arrowheads and catapult bolts) suggest that the sanctuary was destroyed in a violent attack around the mid-second century, possibly by the Romans. A modest sanctuary in a modest Arcadian city-state, the acropolis sanctuary at Stymphalos will be a major point of reference for all archaeologists and historians studying ancient Arcadia and all southern Greece in the future.
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The buildings and artefacts uncovered by Canadian excavations at Stymphalos (1994--2001) shed light on the history and cult of a small sanctuary on the acropolis of the ancient city. The thirteen detailed studies collected in Stymphalos: The Acropolis Sanctuary illuminate a variety of aspects of the site. Epigraphical evidence confirms that both Athena and Eileithyia, goddess of childbirth, were worshipped in the sanctuary between the fourth and second centuries BCE. The temple and service buildings are modest in size and materials, but the temple floor and pillar shrine suggest that certain stones and bedrock outcrops were held as sacred objects. Earrings, finger rings, and other jewelry, along with almost 100 loomweights, indicate that women were prominent in cult observances. Many iron projectile points (arrowheads and catapult bolts) suggest that the sanctuary was destroyed in a violent attack around the mid-second century, possibly by the Romans. A modest sanctuary in a modest Arcadian city-state, the acropolis sanctuary at Stymphalos will be a major point of reference for all archaeologists and historians studying ancient Arcadia and all southern Greece in the future.

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Introduction / Gerald P. Schaus (Wilfrid Laurier University, Archaeology and Classical Studies) -- Chapter 1: Ancient Sources and Early Travellers / Gerald P. Schaus Chapter 2: The Sanctuary: Site Description / Gerald P. Schaus Chapter 3: Sculpture from the Acropolis Sanctuary / Mary Sturgeon (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Art) -- Chapter 4: Coins from the Acropolis Sanctuary / Robert Weir (University of Windsor, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) -- Chapter 5: Weapons: Catapult Bolts, Arrowheads, Javelin- and Spear-heads, and Sling Bullets / Christopher Hagerman (Albion College, History Department) -- Chapter 6: Jewelry / Alexis Young (Wilfrid Laurier University, Archaeology and Classical Studies) -- Chapter 7: Miscellaneous Small Finds / Gerald P. Schaus Chapter 8: Iron Nails / Monica Munaretto (Wilfrid Laurier University, Archaeology and Classical Studies) -- and Gerald P. Schaus Chapter 9: Pottery of Building A / Peter Stone (Newcastle University, Head of School of Arts and Cultures) -- Chapter 10: Select Pottery / Gerald P. Schaus Chapter 11: Lamps / Hector Williams (University of British Columbia, Greek Art & Archaeology) -- Chapter 12: Loomweights / Laura Surtees (University of Pennsylvania, Classical Studies) -- Chapter 13: Faunal remains / Deborah Ruscillo (Washington University in St. Louis, Anthropology) -- Chapter 14: Human Skeletal Remains / Sandra Garvie-Lok (University of Alberta, Anthropology).

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