Panthéons locaux de Lycie, Lykaonie et Cilicie aux deuxième et premier millénaires av. J.-C.

Lebrun, René

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“…On the basis of Lycian tomb texts, Bryce suggests that the incorporation of older, Anatolian-style gods of Lycia into the Greek pantheon was in place by around the fifth century BC. Unfortunately, there are no known myths, stories, or attributes of these gods, though the parallels with earlier Anatolian religion are clear (Bryce 1983;Lebrun 1998;Payne 2008).…”

Section: Other Lycian Deitiesmentioning

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Of Winged Women and Stone Tombs: Identity and Agency through Iron Age Lycian Mortuary Architecture

Selover¹

2021

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The people collectively named the Lycians in modern scholarship are the best represented of the western Anatolian first millennium BC cultures in terms of philological, historical, and archaeological data. This article seeks to better understand the meanings behind Iron Age Lycian mortuary monuments and religious images, and how they reflect Lycian identity and agency in a time of political turmoil. By studying the Lycian mortuary landscape, tombs and images, we can begin to comprehend Lycian perceptions of the afterlife, religion and cultural identity. In particular, we look to the images of the so-called “Harpies” and “Running Men” to better understand evidence of the afterlife, connections to the past and the creation of their own identity of what it means to be Lycian. The study of Lycian mortuary trends, monumental architecture, and religion gives us a small but tantalizing view into the Lycian understanding of religion and death, and how they wielded their own culture as a tool for survival in a politically fraught world.

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Section: Other Lycian Deitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Of Winged Women and Stone Tombs: Identity and Agency through Iron Age Lycian Mortuary Architecture

Selover¹

2021

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Le culte deZeus Brontôn : l’espace et la morphologie du dieu de l’orage dans la Phrygie d’époque romaine

Chiai¹

2020

Archiv Für Religionsgeschichte

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This study aims at reconstructing the evolution of the character of the Anatolian storm-god in Phrygia from the Hittite period to the Roman imperial era, particularly taking into account the Greek votive dedications to Zeus Brontôn. According to the Hittite and Luwian texts, the power of the storm-god was not only limited to the sky, but encompassed fertility, the order of the seasons and, because of his role as the protector of kingship, the social order. Because they favourited a female deity generically called Matar, the coming of the Phrygians seems to be linked to the degradation of the cult, which remained practiced by the lower strata of the population and in the countryside. It was only after the arrival of the Greeks in Hellenistic times and the identification of the local ancient storm-gods with Zeus that their worship became tangible and visible again. The impressive number of dedications, mostly dated between the second and third centuries CE, constitutes an excellent documentary base for studying the character of these local deities. In these epigraphic texts, the theonym Zeus was used as a generic name (Gesamtsbezeichnung) for several divine beings, only partially comparable to the Greek Olympian Zeus.

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A Numismatic Riddle from Arykanda: The God of the Water Spring

Tek

Sancaktar

2020

Adalya

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Among the coin types minted for Arykanda under Emperor Gordianus III, there is a new reverse type depicting Kakasbos wearing military attire and a Thracian helmet. His club is lowered, and he is holding the reins of his horse which stands next to him. On Kakasbos’s right the horse with its right front hoof is striking a rock from which water flows. The iconography is new for Kakasbos and has never been seen before. In fact, he is always shown riding his horse with his club raised to strike. This article explains why this is an image of Kakasbos and not some other deity. It uses other archaeological finds - epigraphic and iconographic - found during the excavations at Arykanda. The authors also identify the water source meant on the coin type and the cult area that existed next to it at Suyun Gözü, the main source of the Arykandos River.

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Panthéons locaux de Lycie, Lykaonie et Cilicie aux deuxième et premier millénaires av. J.-C.

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Of Winged Women and Stone Tombs: Identity and Agency through Iron Age Lycian Mortuary Architecture

Of Winged Women and Stone Tombs: Identity and Agency through Iron Age Lycian Mortuary Architecture

Le culte deZeus Brontôn : l’espace et la morphologie du dieu de l’orage dans la Phrygie d’époque romaine

A Numismatic Riddle from Arykanda: The God of the Water Spring

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