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Terracotta figurines in burial and memorial rites (based on the materials of necropoleis excavations on the Ilouraton Plateau)
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2019-1-1-46-58
Abstract
The article is based on archaeological materials excavated from the Roman necropoleis at the Ilouraton Plateau (Eastern Crimea). The author attempts to specify the semantics of terracotta figurines discovered in burial and memorial complexes. His approach clarifies their significance as mediators or agents in rituals connected with crossing, or being moved across, the boundary between the world of living human beings, and the Underworld. At one and the same time, the items under consideration give us a wider conception of the highest female deity, which, as we know from previously studied material, the inhabitants of the Bosphorus continued to worship during the early centuries of the Christian era.
About the Authors
Z. V. KhanutinaRussian Federation
Zoya V. Khanutina, senior researcher
bld. 14, Pochtamtskaya str., Saint-Petersburg, 190000
V. A. Khrshanovskii
Russian Federation
Vladimir A. Khrshanovskii, PhD in Philosophy, researcher
bld. 19, Dm. Ul'yanova str., Moscow, 117036
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For citation: Khanutina Z.V., Khrshanovskii V.A. Terracotta figurines in burial and memorial rites (based on the materials of necropoleis excavations on the Ilouraton Plateau). RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2019;(1-1):46-58. https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2019-1-1-46-58
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