Antoine Hermary, Un combat homérique sur un vase chypriote archaïque, p. 167-175.
Une des scènes figurées sur un vase du début du VIIe siècle av. J.-C. découvert il y a plus d'un siècle sur le site de Tamassos avait été interprétée par Salomon Reinach comme une des plus anciennes images du meurtre de la Gorgone par Persée. Ce vase a été partiellement détérioré avant son entrée au British Muséum, mais l'existence de photos antérieures à ces détériorations dans les archives Reinach au Musée des Antiquités nationales de Saint-Germain-en-Laye permet de reprendre l'étude de cette scène : il convient plutôt de l'interpréter comme l'image d'un guerrier grec brandissant la tête coupée de son ennemi. Cette scène doit être replacée dans le contexte homérique et dans celui de la civilisation chypriote de l'époque.
The religious role of the Cypriot rulers in the Archaic and Classical periods is primarily attested in the Paphian inscriptions of the fourth century BC, where various local basileis, and especially Nikokles, the last king of Paphos, are designated as priests of the Wanassa, the “ Lady Queen”, who is assimilated with Aphrodite. A limestone head found in the same context with royal inscriptions at Palaepaphos allows us to suggest that this double role dates from at least as early as the sixth century BC. A number of sculptural pieces from the palace of Amathous (e. g. Hathoric stelae and a figure wearing a bull mask) suggest that a similar relation existed between the kings of Amathous and their “ Aphrodite Kypria”. This evidence could be associated with Phoenician textual material, and primarily with inscriptions, which identify various kings of Sidon as priests of Astarte.
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