Item #379 The Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya, Final Reports, Volume VIII: The Sanctuary's Imperial Architectural Development, Conflict With Christianity, and Final Days (University Museum Monographs). Joyce Reynolds Donald White.
The Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya, Final Reports, Volume VIII: The Sanctuary's Imperial Architectural Development, Conflict With Christianity, and Final Days (University Museum Monographs)

The Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya, Final Reports, Volume VIII: The Sanctuary's Imperial Architectural Development, Conflict With Christianity, and Final Days (University Museum Monographs)

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2012. Hardcover. New oversized hardcover with cloth over boards. Text is clean and free of marks and underlining. Includes appendix, bibliography, index, Arabic summary, figures, and photos. xxiv, 216 pp.

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ISBN: 9781934536469

This is the climactic volume on the archaeological and architectural history from ca. 31 B.C. to A.D. 365 of the extramural sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya. It deals with the impact of Christianity on the cult and the causes of its decline, with particular emphasis on the largest body of evidence recorded anywhere for iconoclastic damage, presumably by Christian populations, to sculpted images of worshippers and twin goddesses. The volume traces the characteristics of major Demeter sanctuaries elsewhere (e.g., Eleusis, Corinth, Pergamon, Acragas, and Selinus) and places Cyrene's sanctuary within the context of this development.

The volume also presents the sanctuary's important lapidary and lead inscriptions as analyzed by Joyce Reyonlds. It is the eighth volume in the final reports series for the excavations conducted for the University of Michigan, and subsequently the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, between 1969 and 1981.

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