DOI Artikel:
Myśliwiec, Karol: Tell Atrib 1994
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26424#0044
stamping bread come from the same context. One of these was
distinguished by an original iconographic motif modelled in sunk
relief on the flat round surface of the stamp. The representation
depicts Dionysios-Sabasios with naked torso and long loose hair,
shown among leaves and holding two animals in his outstretched
hands.
Dionysiac themes present in reliefs decorating vessels and
bread stamps, and particularly the terracotta votive figurines
produced in local workshops, suggest that the currently explored
Ptolemaic district of Athribis was connected with the local
Dionysiac one of the r/zmjo?' the Greek papyri are so full
of, especially in reference to the reign of Ptolemy IV. The
exceptional popularity of wine, oil and scent containers and the
presence of refined vessels of a ritual character in the same
contexts would suggest that Dionysiac feasts took place in the area.
Numerous may be evidence of the Axgyfmm, another feast
which accompanied festivities in honor of Dionysios.
This season's discoveries of terracottas include naturalistic
portraits which are almost caricatures. Perhaps they are images of
human types known from the comedies which unfailingly
accompanied the cult of the Greek deity. An original terracotta
showing a bird sitting on a bunch of grapes also finds a logical
explanation in this context. Some of the figurines of Harpokrates
take on Dionysiac expression because of a telling iconographic
detail: foliage which encircles the head just below the Old Egyptian
crown. The discoveries seem to indicate that in the provinces the
cult of the dynastic god of the Ptolemies (celebrated in purely
Greek form in Alexandria) was considerably permeated with
Egyptian elements, revealing a much more syncretic approach than
in the metropolis. In the case of Athribis, the symbiosis concerned
deities worshipped there for centuries: Osiris, Isis and the child
Horus, whose assimilation with Greek divinities in the mythological
sense was particularly simple. Countless figurines of Isis-Aphrodite
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distinguished by an original iconographic motif modelled in sunk
relief on the flat round surface of the stamp. The representation
depicts Dionysios-Sabasios with naked torso and long loose hair,
shown among leaves and holding two animals in his outstretched
hands.
Dionysiac themes present in reliefs decorating vessels and
bread stamps, and particularly the terracotta votive figurines
produced in local workshops, suggest that the currently explored
Ptolemaic district of Athribis was connected with the local
Dionysiac one of the r/zmjo?' the Greek papyri are so full
of, especially in reference to the reign of Ptolemy IV. The
exceptional popularity of wine, oil and scent containers and the
presence of refined vessels of a ritual character in the same
contexts would suggest that Dionysiac feasts took place in the area.
Numerous may be evidence of the Axgyfmm, another feast
which accompanied festivities in honor of Dionysios.
This season's discoveries of terracottas include naturalistic
portraits which are almost caricatures. Perhaps they are images of
human types known from the comedies which unfailingly
accompanied the cult of the Greek deity. An original terracotta
showing a bird sitting on a bunch of grapes also finds a logical
explanation in this context. Some of the figurines of Harpokrates
take on Dionysiac expression because of a telling iconographic
detail: foliage which encircles the head just below the Old Egyptian
crown. The discoveries seem to indicate that in the provinces the
cult of the dynastic god of the Ptolemies (celebrated in purely
Greek form in Alexandria) was considerably permeated with
Egyptian elements, revealing a much more syncretic approach than
in the metropolis. In the case of Athribis, the symbiosis concerned
deities worshipped there for centuries: Osiris, Isis and the child
Horus, whose assimilation with Greek divinities in the mythological
sense was particularly simple. Countless figurines of Isis-Aphrodite
42