Excavations at Francavilla Marittima 1991-2004: Matt-Painted Pottery from the Timpone della Motta Volume 3: The Fringe Style

Kleibrink, Marianne

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“…On the one hand, there is Macchiabate/Timpone della Motta at Francavilla Marittima with indigenous activity areas as the enormous burial field of Macchiabate, the early goddess sanctuary and settlement remains of Timpone della Motta, and on the other hand there is the city-state of Sybaris founded around 720 BC at about 12 km south of Francavilla Marittima (FM) (literature on the sites is extensive, references are to be found e.g. in: Kleibrink, 2001Kleibrink, , 2010aKleibrink, , 2017De Lachenal, 2007;Guzzo, 2011;Mittica, 2019;Brocato and Altomare 2021;Altomare, 2022). The historical circumstances render the Sibaritide important for a reconstruction of the course of events before, during and after the implementation of the Greek city-state of Sybaris in the indigenous Italic area.…”

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ASPECTS OF BEING A GIRL IN FRANCAVILLA MARITTIMA-<em>LAGARIA</em> (CALABRIA) IN THE EIGHTH CENTURY BC: A RECONSTRUCTION BASED ON TERRACOTTA FIGURINES AND THEIR ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXTS

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2022

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In this article, terracotta figurines from four burials of little girls of an Italic-Chonian community at Macchiabate, together with terracotta figurines from ritual assemblages of the Athenaion at Timpone della Motta, are studied using concepts of archaeological “agency” and “personhood” theory. These approaches are different from the commonly used in Italian mortuary and sanctuary archaeology, which, by focusing on what may be called symbolic reading, regard grave- and votive-goods as attributes of the buried individuals and thus as straightforward presentations of status. The explanation current in agency and personhood theory, however, by focusing on active reading, prefers to see individuals and objects as producing social order and not merely reflecting it. Terracotta figurines, unearthed in the Macchiabate necropolis near the Calabrian village of Francavilla Marittima, and figurines excavated in the sanctuary on the Timpone della Motta near that same Francavilla Marittima, provide interesting cases of objects functioning as key actors in processes of personal and social change. The figurines from the eighth and the first quarter of the seventh centuries BC were made and used to act as intermediates between the natural and the supernatural worlds on behalf of girls and their parents in transitional situations. In the presented cases the figurines and the girls are, moreover, related to “Middle Ground” situations of social change in operation with indigenous Italic-Chonian inhabitants and new settlers from the Eastern Mediterranean (likely Euboia, Samos and the Cycladic islands) in the pre-urban coastal area of Ionian Calabria.

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ASPECTS OF BEING A GIRL IN FRANCAVILLA MARITTIMA-<em>LAGARIA</em> (CALABRIA) IN THE EIGHTH CENTURY BC: A RECONSTRUCTION BASED ON TERRACOTTA FIGURINES AND THEIR ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXTS

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Production of Liminal Places – An Interdisciplinary Account

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Riehle²,

Sultanalieva³

2015

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Using the concept of liminality, this paper provides a comparative study of ritual places. The concept was introduced by Arnold van Gennep in his study "rites de passage", in which he differentiated between rites of separation (préliminaires), rites of transition (liminaires) and rites of aggregation (postiliminaires). The main characteristics of liminality were elaborated by Victor Turner: of crucial importance are the temporary dissolution or reversal of existing social structures and the visit of places that are set apart due to their geographical or cultural location. Accordingly, these places enhance the emotional and physical experiences of the individuals participating in the rituals. We discuss case studies from Prehistoric Archaeology, Classical Archaeology and Ethnology: (I) the Heidentor near Egesheim on the Swabian Jura in southwestern Germany, used during the Hallstatt and the La Tène period, (II) the Early Iron Age ritual complex of Francavilla Marittima close to the Ionian coast of Calabria in southern Italy and (III) the recently used pilgrimage site in the Manzhyly-Ata Valley on the shore of Lake Yssyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan. The comparative analysis focuses on the spatial and material expressions of liminality and its social significance: the history of origin and usage, special forms of artifacts involved in the rituals and the geographical or cultural location. Due to the exceptional nature of the case studies, their location and long (dis)continuous histories of use, they differ from contemporaneous structures. Altogether, the concept of liminality provides new perspectives on ritual sites and how they were embedded in their surrounding landscapes.

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Excavations at Francavilla Marittima 1991-2004: Matt-Painted Pottery from the Timpone della Motta Volume 3: The Fringe Style

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ASPECTS OF BEING A GIRL IN FRANCAVILLA MARITTIMA-<em>LAGARIA</em> (CALABRIA) IN THE EIGHTH CENTURY BC: A RECONSTRUCTION BASED ON TERRACOTTA FIGURINES AND THEIR ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXTS

ASPECTS OF BEING A GIRL IN FRANCAVILLA MARITTIMA-<em>LAGARIA</em> (CALABRIA) IN THE EIGHTH CENTURY BC: A RECONSTRUCTION BASED ON TERRACOTTA FIGURINES AND THEIR ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXTS

Production of Liminal Places – An Interdisciplinary Account

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