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Industrial Religion: The Saucer Pyres of the Athenian Agora (Hesperia Supplement)
Susan Rotroff
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Description for Industrial Religion: The Saucer Pyres of the Athenian Agora (Hesperia Supplement)
Paperback. This study focuses on the "saucer pyres," a series of 70 deposits excavated in the residential and industrial areas bordering the Athenian Agora. Num Pages: 248 pages, 126 illustrations. BIC Classification: ACG; HDD; HDDK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 282 x 19. Weight in Grams: 846.
This study focuses on the "saucer pyres," a series of 70 deposits excavated in the residential and industrial areas bordering the Athenian Agora. Each consisted of a shallow pit, its floor sometimes marked by heavy burning, with a votive deposit of pottery and fragments of burnt bone, ash, and charcoal. Most of the pots were miniatures (including the eponymous saucers) but a few larger vessels were found, along with offerings associated with funerary cult. The deposits represent a largely Athenian phenomenon, with few parallels elsewhere. When first found in the 1930s, the deposits were interpreted as baby burials. Recent zooarchaeological ... Read more
This study focuses on the "saucer pyres," a series of 70 deposits excavated in the residential and industrial areas bordering the Athenian Agora. Each consisted of a shallow pit, its floor sometimes marked by heavy burning, with a votive deposit of pottery and fragments of burnt bone, ash, and charcoal. Most of the pots were miniatures (including the eponymous saucers) but a few larger vessels were found, along with offerings associated with funerary cult. The deposits represent a largely Athenian phenomenon, with few parallels elsewhere. When first found in the 1930s, the deposits were interpreted as baby burials. Recent zooarchaeological ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Princeton, United States
ISBN
9780876615478
SKU
V9780876615478
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About Susan Rotroff
Susan I. Rotroff is the Jarvis Thurston and Mona Van Duyn Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis.
Reviews for Industrial Religion: The Saucer Pyres of the Athenian Agora (Hesperia Supplement)
This masterly study sets an exceptionally high standard for archaeological monographs. Anne Mackay, Mouseion 13.2 (2016), pp. 460-463. "This bold and brilliant analysis of the curious phenomenon of saucer pyres will be of interest to all Greek archaeologists and scholars of ancient Greek religion." Sarah A. James, AJA 120.4 (2016).