MAIASP. 2022. No. S1 I.Yu. Schaub ( Unknown lead votive from
Olbia DOI: 10.53737/2713-2021.2022.30.96.002 Access this
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The article is devoted to the publication of a
lead composition, which was accidentally found in Olbia in the 80s of the 20th century CE and is
now in a private collection. Similar lead figurines, which are not without
reason considered votives, are very characteristic of Olbia
and its environs. However, the plot presented in the composition under
consideration — a winged woman on a chariot — was not
recorded among the Olbian lead items. At the
same time, a similar plot appears on the items of the Bosporan
funerary inventory. The author finds close analogies among the things and
plots of the funeral cult of the Thracians. Therefore, he suggests that in
the image of the winged woman on the published votive, the Olbiopolites saw not the goddess of victory, Nike, but
some kind of chthonic demon (or chthonic goddess). The closest Bosporan and Thracian analogies indicate that the votive was cast at the end of the 4th or in the 3rd
century BCE. |
Key words: Pontic Olbia, |
Received
October 18, 2022 Accepted
for publication October 29, 2022 |
About the author: Schaub Igor Yurievich ( E-mail: schaubigor@mail.ru
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