Of Cadiz goddesses. About a new set of terracottas from gades’ necropolis

Authors

  • Ana María Niveau de Villedary y Mariñas Universidad de Cádiz

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21071/aac.v20i.6947

Keywords:

Terra-cotta, Cadiz necropolis, funerary ritual, female divinity.

Abstract

The find of a new complex of figurative terra-cotta thymiateria (shaped like women’s heads and female figure with a child) in Cadiz necropolis leads us to go back, once again, towards the origin of represented iconography, the models routes of entrance and the objects functionality within the funerary context of these findings. Finally, it allows us to think about the divinity or divinities represented and to back the development of an specific funerary ritual well developed in the western metropolis, where it could be adored a female divinity with ctonic and motherly characteristics.

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Published

2009-05-21

How to Cite

Niveau de Villedary y Mariñas, A. M. (2009). Of Cadiz goddesses. About a new set of terracottas from gades’ necropolis. Anales De Arquelogía Cordobesa, 20, 35–66. https://doi.org/10.21071/aac.v20i.6947

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