DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.4945#0324
313
CHAPTER XVII.
SMALL OBJECTS FROM THE CROESUS TEMPLE.
By D. G. Hogarth.
The following objects were found in the rammed earth which filled the inter-
stices between the Hellenistic piers, built inwards to support the steps and
external columns of the latest temple (E). Since this earth cannot have
been rammed in at a later date than the construction of the foundation of
the Hellenistic Temple, the lowest chronological limit for the objects contained
in it is 350 B.C., and there can be no doubt that they are debris of votive
offerings, dedicated in the course of the two centuries during which the Croesus
Temple existed.
A. Tkrkacottas.
I. Feminine Figurines, all doubtless representations of the Goddess.
1. Draped and seated, without child. One specimen almost complete and
the head of another (Fig. 89). Solid and modelled in the round. Hair curled
over forehead, and gathered behind into a peaked hood. L. hand on the breast,
Fig. S9.
R. hand on knee. Feet broken. Back only roughly shaped. The throne
is a plain, square stool without arms or back support. The whole surface is
badly damaged by damp. H. ■ 140. Early 5th century (?) (Fig. 90).
2. Draped and seated, with a nude child in the crook of the 1. arm.
R. hand holds the child's feet. Solid. Only the forepart is disengaged from
the rudely-shaped lump which forms the back. The head missing. The throne
is like that of No. 1, but with rounded forepart. Original H. about -13.
2 s
CHAPTER XVII.
SMALL OBJECTS FROM THE CROESUS TEMPLE.
By D. G. Hogarth.
The following objects were found in the rammed earth which filled the inter-
stices between the Hellenistic piers, built inwards to support the steps and
external columns of the latest temple (E). Since this earth cannot have
been rammed in at a later date than the construction of the foundation of
the Hellenistic Temple, the lowest chronological limit for the objects contained
in it is 350 B.C., and there can be no doubt that they are debris of votive
offerings, dedicated in the course of the two centuries during which the Croesus
Temple existed.
A. Tkrkacottas.
I. Feminine Figurines, all doubtless representations of the Goddess.
1. Draped and seated, without child. One specimen almost complete and
the head of another (Fig. 89). Solid and modelled in the round. Hair curled
over forehead, and gathered behind into a peaked hood. L. hand on the breast,
Fig. S9.
R. hand on knee. Feet broken. Back only roughly shaped. The throne
is a plain, square stool without arms or back support. The whole surface is
badly damaged by damp. H. ■ 140. Early 5th century (?) (Fig. 90).
2. Draped and seated, with a nude child in the crook of the 1. arm.
R. hand holds the child's feet. Solid. Only the forepart is disengaged from
the rudely-shaped lump which forms the back. The head missing. The throne
is like that of No. 1, but with rounded forepart. Original H. about -13.
2 s