Cult Stones of the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean

Crooks, Sam

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_2058

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“…This smooth, wedge-shaped boulder of diabase is 122 cm high, and has clearly been washed down the river bed from the ophiolite complex of the Troodos-in spite of the modern determination that it should be a meteorite (Mozel and Morden 2006). It was found out of context upside down in a pit in the south Roman stoa cut in the post-Roman period (Mozel and Morden 2006: 150), but has been securely identified with the cult stone by its frequent representation on Roman coins and by descriptions in the ancient sources (Crooks 2012).…”

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Flowing Rock, Dancing around Trees

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Near Eastern Archaeology

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Rocks and trees are not just omnipresent in the landscape around Kourion: They constitute that landscape, far more dramatically and fundamentally than buildings or roads or fields. Light gray or yellowish limestone pushes through thin soil in jumbled outcrops or rough cliffs and underlies the long, rolling ridges of the ancient city's hinterland. To its west, Episkopi Forest impresses not with its height or uniformity, but with its lively and aromatic tangle of Cyprus pines and cypresses, terebinth and myrtle, and many more (fig. 1). In the middle of this scrubby woodland is Kourion's main sanctuary, dedicated to Apollo Hylates: Apollo of the Woodland. At its ritual heart lies not a statue or a temple, but what seems to be a circular arena for dancing around trees.

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Flowing Rock, Dancing around Trees

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Cult Stones of the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean

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