"The Kore Who Looks After the Grain": A Copy of the Torlonia-Hierapytna           Type in Cyrene

Kane, Susan; Reynolds, Joyce

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“…The 1976 season proved to be especially rich for sculpture, which led to a short summary of the season's finds for this journal (Kane 1977a) and a more detailed catalogue for Libya Antiqua (Kane 1977b). A traditional art historical analysis of the site's single partially intact Archaic kore appeared three years later (Kane 1980), followed by a similarly oriented discussion of its late second, early third century AD statue of the Kore, which is argued to reflect a Greek original of around 440 BC (Kane and Reynolds 1985). The latter article is accompanied by an analysis of the statue's inscribed base (Kane and Reynolds,(462)(463).…”

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The Pennsylvania University Museum's Demeter and Persephone Sanctuary Project at Cyrene: A Final Progress Report?

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1989

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Trigeminated at more or less the same time as the First of September Revolution and the appearance of the first published report from The Society for Libyan Studies, the excavation phase of the extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone project at Cyrene ran until 1978 when it was stopped in order to begin work on final publication. The intervening years have seen a degree of progress, and this retrospective vicenary issue of Libyan Studies provides a welcome opportunity to take stock of what has been and is going on. The journal's readers will already have some familiarity with the broad outlines of the sanctuary project, since summary articles have been published in an earlier issue (White 1978) and elsewhere (Vickers and Reynolds 1972; Kane 1979; Humphrey 1980; White 1981). In addition reviews of the three published volumes of the final report (White 1984; Schaus 1985; Lowenstam et al. 1987) have appeared here with exemplary promptitude (Lloyd 1985; Boardman 1986; Fulford 1988), as well as externally (Brown 1986; Tomlinson 1986; Cook 1987). The present article's bibliographical citations list what has been written about the sanctuary, but omit the series of preliminary reports in Libya Antiqua (between Vols. 8 and 16) and American Journal of Archaeology (Vols. 78 and 80), whose inclusion would be redundant, as would be any attempt to minute the contents of the reviewed final study volumes. Instead my present intention is to give a short report on work in progress and to summarise the results of what has already been published in separate studies outside the framework of the final publication.

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The Pennsylvania University Museum's Demeter and Persephone Sanctuary Project at Cyrene: A Final Progress Report?

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1989

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“…9 But it seems to us that Venusta's dedications could, perhaps, be considered rather as a coherent group illustrating the concern of the cult with the variety of crop fertility. So Kore herself is described on a near-contemporary dedication in the sanctuary as 'the Kore who looks after the corn' 10 and Dionysos gave fruit, especially grapes; could the Parthenos possibly be Athena, who gave, above all, the olive? We do not know whether we really have all the items of Venusta's dedication; there may be yet more to find which would clarify the donor's intention.…”

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An Inscribed Stone from the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore in the Wadi Belgadir at Cyrene: Cult, Corn and Roman Revenues

Mohamed

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1994

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In winter 1987–8 Mr Ramadan Kwaider of the Department of Antiquities at Cyrene found a marble block, inscribed on three faces, in die lower levels of the Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore in the Wadi Belgadir; it had been uncovered by a combination of burrowing foxes and winter rains, and is now, by his prompt action, safe in Cyrene Museum (inv. no. 3480). Our preliminary report on it is awaiting publication in Libya Antiqua; we offer here the three texts, with discussion of some of their points of interest.The history of the block, which was three times re-used, is a vivid reminder of the value of marble at Cyrene, all of it imported and therefore very rarely to be discarded when out of date or damaged, if it could be made to serve another turn. Its findspot solves an uncertainty about the attribution of some other inscriptions to the Wadi Belgadir Sanctuary. More significantly still, it provides a new and suggestive document relating to Roman taxation in Cyrenaica.Only the third and final inscription on the block (Fig. 1) can be said with certainty to belong to the sanctuary. This was cut on a face which measures w. 0.97 m × ht. 0.35 m × d. 0.23 m and was dressed with a claw chisel, but not polished. The letters (ht. average 0.04 m) were lightly cut, rather narrow for their height, in a style dateable approximately to the Hadrianic and early Antonine periods; but although the layout, with quite careful centering, is respectable, the cutting is light so that the letters would only be easily legible if over-painted. The top surface, when the block is in this position, has been hollowed out, presumably for the insertion of the base carrying the statue implied by the text.

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"The Kore Who Looks After the Grain": A Copy of the Torlonia-Hierapytna Type in Cyrene

Cited by 2 publications

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The Pennsylvania University Museum's Demeter and Persephone Sanctuary Project at Cyrene: A Final Progress Report?

The Pennsylvania University Museum's Demeter and Persephone Sanctuary Project at Cyrene: A Final Progress Report?

An Inscribed Stone from the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore in the Wadi Belgadir at Cyrene: Cult, Corn and Roman Revenues

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