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2019

The female world in neolithic art in Sardinia, in F. Martini, L. Sarti, P. Visentini (eds), The neolithic female representations in Italy: iconography, iconology, contexts

RAFFIGURAZIONI FEMMINILI NEOLITICHE IN ITALIA: ICONOGRAFIA, ICONOLOGIA, CONTESTI THE NEOLITHIC FEMALE REPRESENTATIONS IN ITALY: ICONOGRAPHY, ICONOLOGY, CONTEXTS Pubblicazioni del Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale, 55 / Millenni, 20, Udine 2019, 2019

Riassunto: La Sicilia, nello studio delle rappresentazioni antropomorfe neo-litiche, registra un forte ritardo rispetto ad altri ambiti regionali della peni-sola. Il presente lavoro è dedicato all'analisi e revisione di questa categoria di manufatti. Viene presa in esame l'analisi formale che sembra ripercorrere la linea evolutiva delle figurine antropomorfe documentate nell'Italia centro-meridionale nel corso della diffusione delle ceramiche impresse e delle classi figuline dipinte a bande rosse. I tipi più antichi sono quelli che presentano un fitto sistema di decorazione ad incisione diffuso sul corpo; il contesto abita-tivo davanti la Grotta dell'Uzzo (Trapani, Sicilia occidentale) confermerebbe l'antichità del tipo. Solo nel corso delle fasi evolute e finali della cultura di Stentinello si passa ad un maggiore naturalismo, con l'abbandono del sistema grafico. Viene preso in esame, infine, un gruppo di tre figure antropomorfe femminili in pietra da Pirrone (Ragusa, Sicilia sud-orientale), di incerta crono-logia e contesto, ma riferibili ad un insediamento che ha restituito ceramiche dello Stentinello Evoluto fino alle classi di Diana tardo neolitiche. Parole chiave: Arte preistorica, Statuette femminili, Sicilia, Neolitico. Abstract: As the study of Neolithic statuettes concerns, Sicily appears to be later rather than other areas of Mainland Italy, where researches on this topic have been largely carried out. The aims of this paper is at analyzing and at general reassessment of this category of objects. The morphological analysis leads to conclude that female statuettes in Sicily show the same path of evolution recognized in the Neolithic contexts of central-southern Italy during the spread of the Impressed Ware and of Red Painted pottery. The oldest types include a extensive decorative system by incised lines. The reassessment of the domestic context of Grotta dell'Uzzo (Trapani, Western Sicily), where three samples are well-documented, confirms this chronological attribution. In the next evolution, a most stylistically-defined naturism prevails and the traditional incised decoration disappears. Finally, a focus will be on a groups of three lithic female figurines found in the Neolithic site at Pirrone (Ragusa, southeastern Sicily). However, the archaeological context is uncertain because the site is dated from the Stentinello culture (phase of Impressed Wares) to the Late Neolithic Diana culture.

REVISTA ARKEOGAZTE / ARKEOGAZTE ALDIZKARIA N. 11., año 2021. urtea 11. Monográfico: D. Sigari, S. Garcês (Eds), Los animales en el arte prehistórico Monografikoa: Animaliak historiaurreko artean, 2021

This work examines animals’ representations of the post-Palaeolithic rock art that can be found on walls of caves and shelters located in the Italian peninsula, along the Apennine ridge, and in the main islands. The rare represented animals are Neolithic cervids in hunting scenes and very schematic figures of quadrupeds, few birds and fishes, datable between Chalcolithic and Bronze Age. Representations of anthropomorphic and abstract figures are dominant. Images of horses and riders, dogs and cervids, depicted more realistically and in motion, can be surely related to the Iron Age. After an analysis of evidence identified from Liguria to Sicily and the islands, attention is directed to the opposition of this lack of images in rock art, which are often located in places with a high symbolic and sacral value in addition to their function of controlling routes and territories, to the abundant frequency of domestic and wild animals’ remains observable in several cave and outdoor sites surely related to cults and ritual offers. The sacred significance of deers, bulls (represented with protomes), canids, horses, can be observed too: as their presence in many mythologies and in Christian symbologies demonstrate, their symbolic meaning has been perpetuated until historical periods

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Acta Hyperborea 13 - Vessels and Variety. Edited by Hanne Thomasen, Annette Rathje, and Kristen Bøggild Johannsen, 2013

The handmade Argive figurine dubbed ‘Tirynthian Argive’ has yet to be treated and assesed independently. The type has been found at Peloponnesian sites such as Tiryns, the Argive Heraion, Argos, and Prosymna, and it has been sporadically published, but a coherent discussion of its importance, distribution and the problem of assigning a deity to it is still lacking but will be demonstrated here. When consulting the various publications where this type of figurine occur, the chronology suggested is sometimes unclear often because of the lack of stratified and contextual excavations. Newer excavations, as well as publications, makes it possible to narrow down the figurine’s chronology. A presentation of the unpublished Rawson Deposit from Nemea with well-dated Corinthian and Attic pottery, and the first attestation of the ‘Tirynthian Argive’ type in Nemea, further strengthens the dating of the figurine to the end of 6th to the beginning of the 5th century BC. In the following I will discuss the chronology of the handmade ‘Tirynthian Argive’ type, its distribution in the Peloponnese, the possible diety it represents, and provide a suggestion to its origin in the area of Argos, and eventually the diffusion and impact in the north-east Peloponnese.