Votive Dedication in Memory of a Fishing Trip

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DC Field	Value
dc.identifier	ECF_article_836
dc.title	Votive Dedication in Memory of a Fishing Trip
dc.contributor.author	Oranges Annabella
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/axon/2017/1/dedica-votiva-in-ricordo-di-una-battuta-di-pesca/
dc.description.abstract	Dating back to the beginning of the fifth century, this epigraph provides an example of a private votive dedication at the hands of Autandros and Mys, two fishers working in the bay of Eleusis. They managed to catch a swordfish and dedicated an altar to the god of the sea, Poseidon, to thank him.
dc.relation.ispartof	Axon
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 1 \| Issue 1 \| June 2017
dc.issued	2017-06-30
dc.dateAccepted	2016-11-06
dc.dateSubmitted	2016-08-30
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2532-6848
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/2532-6848/Axon-1-1-17-10
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Altare
dc.subject	Altare
dc.subject	Autandros
dc.subject	Autandros
dc.subject	Dedica votiva
dc.subject	Dedica votiva
dc.subject	Eleusi
dc.subject	Eleusi
dc.subject	Mys
dc.subject	Mys
dc.subject	Pesca
dc.subject	Pesca
dc.subject	Poseidone
dc.subject	Poseidone
dc.subject	Thranis
dc.subject	Thranis

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Annabella Oranges Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano

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abstract

Dating back to the beginning of the fifth century, this epigraph provides an example of a private votive dedication at the hands of Autandros and Mys, two fishers working in the bay of Eleusis. They managed to catch a swordfish and dedicated an altar to the god of the sea, Poseidon, to thank him.

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June 30, 2017

Accepted

Nov. 6, 2016

Submitted

Aug. 30, 2016

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Keywords: Thranis • Poseidone • Dedica votiva • Pesca • Altare • Autandros • Mys • Eleusi

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