Classical Studies 3550E Lecture 9: Classical Studies 3550 Lecture Notes October 16 2018
20 Oct 2018
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Forum boarium: cattle market, other things would be happening here as well, located on the banks of the tiber river, across from tiber island. In republican rome the area was a commercial centre for merchants sailing up the tiber: evidence of activity in this area since the 7th century bce. Lecture: archaic temple pediment sculpture, mediterranean parallels, greek influence which suggest a date in the early half of the 6th century, seen most obviously on the temple of. Dedications from the sanctuary: local and italic items, greek imports, foreign items, carved amber pendants, bone and ivory implements, bronze fibulae. Ivory figurines: loom weights, spindle whorls and other implements suggesting a female aspect to the sanctuary. Inscription on the back reads: araz silqetenas spurianas. Identified by her helmet, typical to the greek depiction of the goddess: also argued to be aphrodite/venus (f. coarelli, connection between the near eastern aphrodite figure and the western mater.
