Από την Ελεύθερνα και το Ιδαίον μια απόπειρα ερμηνείας χαμένων τελετουργιών

Abstract

From Eleutherna and the Idaean Cave: an attempt to reconstruct lost rituals. The material unearthed from the unplundered tomb A1/K1 in the necropolis of Orthi Petra at ancient Eleutherna which was in use between 880/60 and 680/60? B.C. offers a manifold contribution to the understanding of the Early Iron Age. Discussion here regards a bronze «shield» that was found inside the chamber of the tomb A1/K1 and its interpretation compared with other similar artifacts found in the Idaean Cave. To the find of Eleutherna is given a new interpretation as a “shield”-lid of an urn or primazely of a bronze cauldron which is also strengthened by the finds of similar cauldrons and shields from the Idaean Cave. Comparisons and interpretations of well known artifacts like the ceramic urnlids from Fortetsa and Ampelokipi as well as the mitra of Axos combined with the verses of the inscription of the Hymn to Zeus in Palaikastro may shed light to rituals at the Idaean Cave during the Early Iron Age.