Sanctuaries of Boeotia in the Mycenaean Period (Interpreting  the Text TH Av 104 +191)

Occupation: Scientific Director of Institute for Linguistic Studies RAS, Head of the Department of Comparative-Historical Study of Indo-European Languages and Areal Studies of Institute for Linguistic Studies RAS
Affiliation: Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
Address: St. Petersburg, 199053

Journal name

Vestnik drevnei istorii

Edition

Volume 81 Issue 1

Pages

23-51

Abstract

The text of the tablet TH Av 104 +191 lists the men who were sent to sanctuar-ies and religious festivals. It was a communal enterprise: the mention of the grain-pourers (si-to-ko[-wo) implies public funding of the journey to the ἱερά. The groups of men sent to the festivals in many cases are counted by tens, a practice that is at-tested in Greece of the first millennium BCE.

Special attention is given to the forms of the toponym, known from the Pylos tablets, pa-ki-ja-na-de and pa-ki-ja-si (PY An 1, PY Tn 316) that can be identified with the cult in Sphacteria. The syllabic notation ka-zo is interpreted as /khalkios (woikos)/ ‘the bronze (house / sanctuary)’, whereas ki-ta]-ro-na-de as the denotation of Cytheron, where Zeus and Hera were honored at Δαίδαλα festival: te-re-ja-de, is consequently understood as τέλεια (ἱερά). The connection between po-to-a2-ja-de and the sanctuary at Ptoia is unmistakable, and the interpretation proposed by M. Meier-Brügger shows that the toponym must be based on the name *Ptōs (cf. the name po-to KN As 1516.4). The word o-ke-re-u-ri-jo is read as /Onkhēhurioi/ < *Onkhēs-ur-ios, its first part comparable with the toponyms Ὀγχηστός and Ὄγχησμος. It is also suggested that the toponym ku-te-we-so should be interpreted not as /Kutēwesoi/?, but as /Kunth-wesoi/ < *Kunth-u̯ent-i̯o-, from the name of the mountain Kunthos, an interpretation that seems preferable to the traditional explanation through the botanical term κύτισος (Medicago arborea).

The geographical placement of the sanctuaries (the Ptoian mountains to the north, and Cithaeron to the south of Thebes) allows to interpret TH Av 104 +191 as a list of festivals celebrated not by the local community alone, but by the whole king-dom and supported by the palace administration that sent out delegations of men to help with the organization of the festivals.

Keywords

Mycenaean Greece, Theban kingdom, Theban tablet TH Av 104 +191

Received

18.11.2020

Publication date

29.03.2021

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76415

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GOST	Kazansky N. Sanctuaries of Boeotia in the Mycenaean Period (Interpreting the Text TH Av 104 +191) // Vestnik drevnei istorii – 2021. – V. 81. – Issue 1 C. 23-51 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/vdi/s032103910013520-5-1-en (circulation date: 25.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S032103910013520-5
MLA	Kazansky, Nikolai "Sanctuaries of Boeotia in the Mycenaean Period (Interpreting the Text TH Av 104 +191)." Vestnik drevnei istorii 81.1 (2021):23-51. DOI: 10.31857/S032103910013520-5
APA	Kazansky N. (2021). Sanctuaries of Boeotia in the Mycenaean Period (Interpreting the Text TH Av 104 +191). Vestnik drevnei istorii 81(1), pp.23-51 DOI: 10.31857/S032103910013520-5

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