Mater Minerva: New figurines terracotta from the Forum Arucci (Aroche, Huelva)

Authors

  • Javier BERMEJO MELÉNDEZ Área de Arqueología. Universidad de Huelva

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21071/aac.v0i25-26.6425

Keywords:

Terracotta, Minerva, Rixamae, Arucci.

Abstract

The finding of a new terracotta, identified as Minerva, proceeding from the sacella of Arucci’s forum comes to add to the whole series of feminine already existing figurines, some of which are presented again in this work also as representations of the same goddess. The context in which they appear, clearly cultual with dedications to the matres, as well as the parallel ones for this type of objects so much in the Baetica as fundamentally in the Gallia, leads us to interpreting it as an ex-vote related to the fertility, fecundity and infantile protection very in tuning in with this type of dedications of the goddess.

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Published

2015-12-01

How to Cite

BERMEJO MELÉNDEZ, J. (2015). Mater Minerva: New figurines terracotta from the Forum Arucci (Aroche, Huelva). Anales De Arquelogía Cordobesa, (25-26), 311–320. https://doi.org/10.21071/aac.v0i25-26.6425

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