Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion by Dillon Matthew

Author:Dillon, Matthew
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Published: 2012-04-08T04:00:00+00:00

A pregnant woman sacrifices to the nymphs

Four painted wooden pinakes (offering tablets; they are all polychromatic) dating to 540–520 BC were discovered in a cave, where the nymphs were worshipped, at Pitsa near Sikyon in the Peloponnese. The best-preserved pinax, with the colouring and the entire tablet almost intact, depicts a sacrificial scene in which women are prominent (Figure 7.3).105

Figure 7.3 Pregnant woman and attendants sacrificing to the nymphs for a successful childbirth; painted wooden plaque discovered in a cave at Pitsa, Peloponnese (Greece); length: 30 centimetres; height: 15 centimetres; polychrome; 540–520 BC.

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