The author has been involved in the work at Kalydon since 2011 and has been able to study both published and unpublished miniature pottery found since 2001. Within the last decade, miniature pottery has attracted considerable scholarly attention, which has produced insight that may be applied to the evidence from Kalydon.
The renewed excavations have produced a substantial amount of miniature votive pottery, and in drawing attention to this hitherto rather overlooked aspect of material culture, I will argue that it must play an important role in our understanding of religious practice in ancient Kalydon. The purpose of this article is to cast further light on the religious cults of the city and Kalydonian ritual behaviour. These renewed excavations have produced much new information about the ancient city, including its religious cults. In the period 2011-6, Drs Rune Frederiksen and Søren Handberg carried out excavations in collaboration with the Ephorate of Antiquities of Aetolia-Acarnania and Lefkada in Kalydon’s Theatre, and on the Lower Acropolis plateau. In the years 2001-5, Drs Søren Dietz and Maria Stavropoulou-Gatsi directed excavations in several areas of the city, and the results were published in two volumes in 2011. The past 15 years have witnessed renewed and intensive archaeological fieldwork at the ancient Greek city of Kalydon in Aitolia. The symposium was also an occasion to honour an eminent scholar of the Early Iron Age, Professor Jan Bouzek. 700 BC, the rise of the polis, were some of the suggested lines of inquiry. The regional diversities or homogeneities, the interaction between the Greek and indigenous communities, the study of the Early Greek World independently from the chronological “divide” of ca.
The topics of the papers were drawn from the three axis of the “ARISTEIA” research project (Settlements, Sanctuaries, Cemeteries). A second aim of the symposium, was to present new evidence from important current excavation projects, thus highlighting the data published up to now. The aim of the symposium was on one hand to present original overviews, mostly geographical, of the current data from the entire Greek World, dating from the tenth to the end of the seventh century BC, based partly on the results of the research of the members of the “ARISTEIA” project or thanks to the expertise of the invited scholars. The current volume contains the papers read during the International Symposium entitled “Regional Stories towards a New Perception of the Early Greek World”, held at the University of Thessaly in Volos, from 18-21 June 2015.
0 kommentar(er)
