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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