TY - GEN
T1 - Quale rito per la dea? Pratiche del sacro nel santuario di Tas-Silg a Malta
AU - Bonzano, Francesca
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Th
e paper analyses the ritual practices recorded in the Tas-Silġ sanctuary, in the island of Malta,
focusing on what features can be retraced for the historical phases prior to the Late republican age,
between 8th and 2nd century BC.
e rst period (8th-5th century BC) refers to the Phoenician phase
of the site: the new structures do not seem to interfere with the prehistoric temple, which is kept
unaltered.
e worshipped deity – known from the inscriptions – is Astarte: the complex personality
of the goddess, featuring traits belonging to the local tradition, has marked chthonian characters, as
testied by the existence of the recently explored hypogeum structures.
e new elements added in
the sacricial area over the timespan between 4th and 2nd century BC reveal a new openness towards
Mediterranean inuences; the hypogeum is not used for rituals anymore, and the chthonian traits
of the cult clearly lose strenghth, probably under the inuence of the new cultural context.
AB - Th
e paper analyses the ritual practices recorded in the Tas-Silġ sanctuary, in the island of Malta,
focusing on what features can be retraced for the historical phases prior to the Late republican age,
between 8th and 2nd century BC.
e rst period (8th-5th century BC) refers to the Phoenician phase
of the site: the new structures do not seem to interfere with the prehistoric temple, which is kept
unaltered.
e worshipped deity – known from the inscriptions – is Astarte: the complex personality
of the goddess, featuring traits belonging to the local tradition, has marked chthonian characters, as
testied by the existence of the recently explored hypogeum structures.
e new elements added in
the sacricial area over the timespan between 4th and 2nd century BC reveal a new openness towards
Mediterranean inuences; the hypogeum is not used for rituals anymore, and the chthonian traits
of the cult clearly lose strenghth, probably under the inuence of the new cultural context.
KW - Cult practice
KW - Maltese Archaeology
KW - Phoenician Punic Archaeology
KW - Phoenician sanctuaries
KW - Sanctuary of Tas-Silġ
KW - Cult practice
KW - Maltese Archaeology
KW - Phoenician Punic Archaeology
KW - Phoenician sanctuaries
KW - Sanctuary of Tas-Silġ
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/77626
M3 - Contributo a convegno
SN - 978-88-8303-679-8
T3 - POLYMNIA. STUDI DI ARCHEOLOGIA
SP - 147
EP - 175
BT - Sacrum facere. Atti del III Seminario di Archeologia del Sacro. Lo spazio del ‘sacro’: ambienti e gesti del rito, Trieste, 3-4 ottobre 2014
T2 - Sacrum facere. III Seminario di Archeologia del Sacro. Lo spazio del ‘sacro’: ambienti e gesti del rito
Y2 - 3 October 2014 through 4 October 2014
ER -