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Divine Images. Cult Statues in the Ancient Greek World. Samian coins with cult image of Hera: Roman Imperial period. Plan of the citadel at Tiryns. First Hekatompedon at Samos. First Heraion on Samos: reconstruction; 7th c.
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Divine Images Cult Statues in the Ancient Greek World
Reconstruction of Apollo temple at Dreros, Crete, interior, ca. 700 BCE
Apollo, Leto and Artemis from the temple at Dreros, ca. 700 BCE
The “smiting god”: Bronze Age example from Cyprus and Greek Zeus from Ugento.
Relief panels 1-3 from Room 64, Palace of Sennacherib in Nineveh
Neo-Assyrian relief from Maltaya Iraq, ca. 700. King supplicates deities mounted on animals
Image of Nemesis at Rhamnous by Agorakritos, Attica, 5th century
Cult images in terracotta from Grammichele and Paestum, height about 90 cm each
Apollo in his temple: fragment of a red-figured krater from Taranto.
Madonna delle Lacrime from Syracuse: mass-produced chalkware image of the madonna ca. 1954