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Astarte ed Era-Giunone: considerazioni su interpretatio e rituale. Una prospettiva dal santuario di Tas-Silġ a Malta

Translated title of the contribution: [Autom. eng. transl.] Astarte and Era-Juno: considerations on interpretation and ritual. A perspective from the sanctuary of Tas-Silġ in Malta

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Abstract

Astarte’s cult peculiarities—and consequently those of her divine divine personality—are often elusive, due both to the limited number of reliably excavated sanctuaries, and the fragmentation of the field research; in addition to that, in sites spanning a wide chronological frame, there is an objective difficulty in the communication among different disciplines. Wide scientific networks, research projects and publications dealing with excavations conducted in places of worship —mostly in the Western area— have been carried out in recent years. All these contributions allow to evaluate the peculiarity of the performed ritual and consequently to reflect about the reason why Astarte has been assimilated, from time to time, to different deities of the Greek-Roman pantheon. The paper aims to investigate the interpretatio with Hera-Juno through the Maltese sanctuary of Tas-Silġ as case-study.
Translated title of the contribution[Autom. eng. transl.] Astarte and Era-Juno: considerations on interpretation and ritual. A perspective from the sanctuary of Tas-Silġ in Malta
Original languageItalian
Title of host publicationLRBT : dall’archeologia all’epigrafia. Studi in onore di Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo. De l’archéologie à l’épigraphie. Etudes en hommage à Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo
EditorsN CHIARENZA, B D’ANDREA, A. ORSINGHER
Pages79-98
Number of pages20
Volume3
Publication statusPublished - 2021

Publication series

NameSemitica et Classica. Supplementa

Keywords

  • Astarte
  • Phoenician-Punic religion
  • Tas-Silġ sanctuary
  • archaeology
  • archaeology of ritual
  • archeologia
  • archeologia dei luoghi di culto
  • religione fenicio-punica
  • santuario di Tas-Silġ

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