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The Sanctuary of Santa Venera at Paestum II : The Votive Terracottas

by: Ammerman, R.M.

Price: 215,00 EURO

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Category: Greek Pottery – Painting – Terracottas
Code: 4706
ISBN-13: 9780472108992 / 978-0-472-10899-2
ISBN-10: 0472108999 / 0-472-10899-9
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
Publication Date: 2002
Publication Place: Ann Arbor
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 440
Book Condition: New
Comments: XCIX Plates / 560 pages, 6 drawings, 540 photographs, 10 tables, 8.5 x 11, July 2002

The Sanctuary of Santa Venera at Paestum. II
Author:Rebecca Miller Ammerman

 

The book documents some three thousand votive terracottas recovered by archaeologists at Santa Venera, one of the sanctuaries at Paestum. While each terracotta represents an act of religious devotion, the assembled corpus of votive gifts bears witness to the repeated performance of a dedicatory rite. In this way, the terracottas offer a window on the collective religious beliefs which motivated such ritualized giving in the classical world.
The volume treats systematically each type of figurine recovered at Santa Venera and includes its illustration. Careful analysis of technology, style, and iconography is given. This contributes new understanding to the full development of the terracotta industry at this important Greek and Roman city-state. Each terracotta from Santa Venera is also considered within the context of the broader distribution of technologically related figurines. This includes not only those terracottas dedicated at other sanctuaries within the territory of Paestum, but also those which occur at sites throughout southern Italy.
The study will appeal to advanced students of archaeology, classical art, Greek and Roman religion, and ancient history. As one of the most comprehensive studies of its kind, it is likely to become a reference work in this field of study.
Rebecca Ammerman is Associate Professor of Classics, Colgate University.

Rebecca Miller Ammerman is Associate Professor of Classics, Colgate University.

Subjects:
Architecture grecque
Architecture, Greek
Buildings
Excavations (Archaeology)
Excavations (Archaeology) Italy Paestum (Extinct city)
Exhibition catalogs
Figurines de terre cuite hellénistiques Expositions
Fouilles (Archéologie) Italie Paestum (Ville ancienne)
Grecs Italie Paestum (Ville ancienne)
Greeks
Greeks Italy Paestum (Extinct city)
Italy Paestum (Extinct city)
Paestum (Extinct city) Buildings, structures, etc
Paestum (Ville ancienne) Constructions
Sanctuary of Santa Venera (Paestum)
Terra-cotta figurines, Hellenistic
Terra-cotta figurines, Hellenistic Exhibitions

Catalog of an exhibition


x, 440 pages, C [i.e. 100] pages of plates : illustrations, plans ; 29 cm

 

 
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The Sanctuary of Santa Venera at Paestum II : The Votive Terracottas

by: Ammerman, R.M.

  • ISBN-13: 9780472108992 / 978-0-472-10899-2
  • ISBN-03: 0472108999 / 0-472-10899-9
  • The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2002

Price: 215,00 EURO

1 copy in stock