Seated female from the Extramural
Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene |
Cyrenaica
Terracottas
is an interactive web site designed for
archaeologists, art historians, historians, and classicists
who have an interest in the typological diffusion of Greek
terracottas at ancient sites in Cyrenaica, Libya, as well
as elsewhere around the Greek world.
Last
Up-date: April 18, 2008
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A view
of the 4,500 terracottas excavated from the Extramural Sanctuary
of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya
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The FIRST PHASE of this project
concerns the Greek votive terracottas brought to light at
the Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone in the
Wadi Bel Gadir at Cyrene, Libya (see above). While terracotta
figurines have been found at Cyrene's Artemision, Theater,
Agora, so-called Temple of the Divinity of Fecundity, Temple
of Demeter, Sanctuary of the Chthonic Nymphs, and in tombs
from Cyrene's necropoleis, those from the Extramural Sanctuary
of Demeter and Persephone represent the largest extant corpus
of figurines found to date anywhere in Cyrenaica. They complement
the figurines discovered at Tocra, Apollonia, Benghazi, Eusperides,
El Gubba, and Budrasc, but far exceed these in number.
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