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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