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Cyrenaica Terracottas
Cyrenaica Terracottas
This
project focuses on
the digital presentation of the Greek votive
terracottas brought to light at
the Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone
in the
Wadi Bel Gadir at Cyrene, Libya, by the University
Museum of the University of Pennsylvania from 1969 to 1979 (see above).
This has lead to the inclusion of other corpora of terracottas,
including those from Cyrene's Artemision and the sanctuary of the
Chthonic Nymphs, as well as from the site of Apollonia.
While terracotta
figurines have been found at Cyrene's Artemision, theater,
agora, so-called Temple of the Divinity of Fecundity, Temple
of Demeter, Sanctuary of the Chthonic Nymphs, and in tombs
from Cyrene's necropoleis, those from the Extramural Sanctuary
of Demeter and Persephone represent the largest extant corpus
of figurines found to date anywhere in Cyrenaica. They complement
the figurines discovered outside of Cyrene, at Tocra, Apollonia, Benghazi, Eusperides,
El Gubba, and Budrasc, but far exceed these in number.
A note on the photography.
All the images for the terracottas from the Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene
have been scanned from the original black and white negatives that were
made during the course of the 1969 to 1979 campaigns. No subsequent
photographic documentation has been possible.
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