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Ειδώλια, στέφανοι, μικκύλα, αγγεία και λύχνοι. Πήλινα αναθήματα σε αγροτικό ιερό στον Ορχομενό (Terracotta Votive offerings in a rural Sanctuary of Orchomenos, Boeotia).
No full textTerracotta Votive offerings in a rural Sanctuary of Orchomenos, Boeotia.
A recent excavation at Orchomenos, between the River Kephisos and the rugged slope of mount Akontio, brought to light the remains of an unknown rural sanctuary, as well as abundant terracotta
objects and evidence for continuity of cult from the Archaic into the Hellenistic period (7th-3rd c. BC). From the votive offerings and the other excavation data, it is deduced that festivals were celebrated in honour of female deities of nature, fertility and fecundity, very possibly of the Graces
(Chares) in combination perhaps with the Oceanids and nymphs, as well as with the thesmophorai goddesses Demeter and Kore. According to many ancient textual testimonies, the cult of the Graces was the oldest and most popular in Orchomenos, while the celebration of the thesmophoreia should be considered certain in a city so rich in cereal production and stock-raising.
Last, from the kind, the provenance and the alternation of the copious terracotta votive offerings(all kinds of figurines, miniature vases and lamps), the development of the rural sanctuary and its cult
during the Archaic and especially the Classical period can be traced. Study of these finds sheds light
on many new and unknown facets of the history of Orchomenos, from the founding of the sanctuary
until is abandonment or rather its transfer to another place in the city, perhaps near the theatre,
where inter alia contexts in music and poetry, known as the Charitesia, were held in Roman times
Ειδώλια, στέφανοι, μικκύλα αγγεία και λύκνοι. Πήλινα αναθήματα σε αγροτικό ιερό στον Ορχομενό = Terrecotte figurate, ghirlande, vasi miniaturistici e lucerne. Ritrovamenti fittili da un santuario rurale a Orchomenos)
No full textThe discovery of the shrine, which dates back to 1957, was occasioned by the construction of a small aqueduct. This structure intercepted and partially tampered one of the major votive deposits. Only in 1997 and, recently, on 2007, this area underwent systematic investigation by the 9th Ephorate for Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities of Boeotia, under the direction of V. Aravantinos. The materials found are displaced between the Museum of Thebes and the Museum of Chaeronea, where a small but significant selection is also displayed.
Located in the Kephissos plain, almost at the boundaries of ancient Locris and Phokis, it controlled the network of smaller satellite settlements arranged around the Copais basin. The sacred space of Orchomenos, located approx. one kilometer to the west of the center of the ancient city, 38° 29’’ 25.79 North and 22° 57’’ 25.71 East in Boeotia (Greece), is of particular interest to understand the prominent role of the city in the Boeotian religious identity and history throughout myth, ritual, and various aspects of material culture. This area, in fact shows a long-term life from seventh to third century. B.C. Cults worshipped in it (that of the Charites — the most ancient cult worshipped in Orchomenos that was variously and uncertainly localized up to date — together with the cult of Demeter Thesmophoros), seem to be strictly connected with the landscape, the rocky mountain and the abundance of water in that area, due to the proximity of the Copais basin, of the river Kephissos and of numerous springs. The discovery of the sanctuary brought to the light large votive deposits with numerous artifacts (thousands), some of which occurring for the first time in the repertoire of Boeotian handicraft and Greek art. Furthermore, it is, one of the very few extra-urban sanctuaries found in the region up to now and the only one that was systematically investigated. Despite the importance of this sacred space in order to reconstruct the religious and social history of Boeotia, references to it in the scientific literature are still lacking
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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