The Role of Greek Sanctuaries in Material and Artistic Interactions between Etruria and Anatolia

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5 - The Role of Greek Sanctuaries in Material and Artistic Interactions between Etruria and Anatolia

from Part II - Interpretive Frameworks

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 March 2023

Nassos Papalexandrou

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Elizabeth P. Baughan and

Lisa C. Pieraccini

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Elizabeth P. Baughan: Affiliation:
University of Richmond, Virginia
Lisa C. Pieraccini: Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley

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A plethora of archaeological evidence retrieved from regional and panhellenic sanctuaries in Greece suggests that from the eighth century BCE and throughout the Archaic period sanctuaries functioned as seminal nodes of cultural interaction between Etruria and Anatolia. This chapter discusses evidence from Greek sanctuaries that functioned as arenas of actual physical contact and tangible or intangible exchanges between visitors from the Italic peninsula and visitors from Anatolia and proposes a heuristic classification of two major categories of sanctuaries: transactional, in which exchanges of an economic nature would have taken place, and heterotopic, in which some transactional exchanges may have been arranged or taken place but which mainly configured themselves as wondrous places only for very few and exclusive visitors seeking to enhance their prestige by simply being there. Contacts between Italics and Anatolians would have taken place in both transactional and heterotopic sanctuaries, while only the high, exclusive elites would have frequented the heterotopic sanctuaries.

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pan-Mediterranean Delphi Olympia Samos Miletus panhellenic sanctuaries travel votive offerings elite “Orientalizing” period

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Information: Etruria and Anatolia
Material Connections and Artistic Exchange
, pp. 98 - 110

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009151016.009 [Opens in a new window]

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Print publication year: 2023

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