Λακωνικά περιρραντήρια εις το Μουσείον Σπάρτης
Part of : Αρχαιολογικά ανάλεκτα εξ Αθηνών ; Vol.II, No.1, 1969, pages 7-10
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Laconian perirrhanteria
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Αρχαιολογικά χρονικά
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The recent reconstruction, from four separated fragments, in the Sparta Museum storeroom, of the base of an unknown perirrhanterion dated to the late 7th century B.C. (figs. 1-3), presents an opportunity for reexamining the theory of the laconian origin of the perirrhanterion type. All it is preserved is the base with 3 crouching lions, each bearing on its back the feet of a female divinity ; these divinities have now vanished. To the discovery of this new monument, already exhibited in the Sparta Museum, we owe the certain identification of some other fragments in the Museum, known from earlier publications. The figure found by Buschor and Massow in the Amyklaion excavation (Invent. No 2629 - AM 52 (1927), pp. 17 and 34, Beil. 7 ) is obviously a divinity supporting the basin of a perirrhanterion of this kind, as was in fact suggested with some hesitation by the excavators. On the other hand the column fragment with a female figure on it, explained by Jenkins as a curious and unique type of altar, and dated to the early daedalic period (figs. 4-5), (BSA 33 (1932 /33), p. 69 ff. PI. 8, No 6) can now be identified without any doubt as a perirrhanterion fragment. The characteristic cavity on the top and the incision were certainly intended for the insertion of the lacking basin. Various fragments of basin rims are already known from Sparta. One of the more important pieces preserves part of the handle with a button bearing a rare gorgoneion (fig. 6), and was recently dated by Th. Karagiorga about the middle of the 6th century B.C. (ΑΔ 19 ( 1964): Μελέται, σελ. 121, αρ. 28).
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