Abstract
This fragment of gold foil represents one of many votive offerings discovered at the cave-sanctuary of Mount Ida, near Gortyn (Cook 1925:938), including a number of thin gold discs decorated with dots or rays; a gold decorative plaque of the 4sub-Minoan’ era; and “an oblong plate of gold to which three draped female figures, with bucrania between them, are soldered; from the plate hangs a snake biting its tail” (Cook 1925:935; Halbherr 1888:752). The cave for centuries had served as a depository of votive gifts, and our amulet may have been deposited as a thank-offering by someone healed from a medical complaint.
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M. Guarducci, Inscriptiones Creticae (Rome, 1935), vol. 8, no. 8 (p. 97)
A. B. Cook, Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religion (Cambridge, 1925), vol. 2, part 2, p. 938 (‘Appendix B’)
F. Halbherr, “Scavi e trovamenti nell’antro di Zeus sul monte Ida in Creta,” Museo Italiano di Antichità Classica 2 (1888), pp. 689–768, esp. p. 751 (with P. Orsi, idem, pp. 769–904).
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Kotansky, R. (1994). Votive Fragment. In: Greek Magical Amulets. Papyrologica Coloniensia. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-20312-4_44
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