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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tablet was Ayagapata meaning homage panel." Anathema Devotional articles Favissa Fire worship Grave goods Pinax Ralaghan Man Senjafuda Sin offering Votive...
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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...
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One burial points to a late Bronze Age occupation. A large Philistine favissa (deposit of cultic artifacts) was discovered on Temple Hill. Two excavation...
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sanctuary favissa. This statue resembles several examples of Cypriot cultic statues that were discovered among the materials of the favissa of the Phoenician...
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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"...
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clandestinely excavated pit, which had been initially interpreted as a favissa. However, subsequent investigation revealed it to be a funeral pyre pit...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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