A favissa is a cultic storage place, usually a pit or an underground cellar, for sacred utensils and votive objects no longer in use. Favissae were located...

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chronology of the found objects. In Italian, such a pit is known as a favissa (plural favissae). Reflecting its meaning of "recess" or "pit" bothros...

One burial points to a late Bronze Age occupation. A large Philistine favissa (deposit of cultic artifacts) was discovered on Temple Hill. Two excavation...

sanctuary favissa. This statue resembles several examples of Cypriot cultic statues that were discovered among the materials of the favissa of the Phoenician...

sections, the second one beginning with the word DVENOS. It was found in a favissa (votive deposit). It belongs to the kind known as "speaking inscriptions"...

the 4th century BC. The remains of the demolished temple were cast in a favissa that only contained material dating from the 5th and first half of the...

clandestinely excavated pit, which had been initially interpreted as a favissa. However, subsequent investigation revealed it to be a funeral pyre pit...

positions, standing upright, while a few others were discovered buried in a favissa (a well for votive deposits). 1959 view of the temple base and top Montet's...

and Sebaï challenge this interpretation, proposing that it was instead a favissa or a room dedicated to a cult. A statue base was discovered in this place...

ran until 2004. From 2000 to 2003, she headed the research project “The favissa of the Herakles Melqart sanctuary in Amrit” within the framework of the...