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Agrigento: Altar relief of Artemis with a deer (6th-5th c. BC)
Agrigento: Altar relief of Artemis with deer (Mus.Agrigento; photo Athena Review 2004) | ||
A number of altar relief fragments called arule have been found in Agrigento which date to the 6th-5th centuries BC. Many date to the construction of the Temple of Zeus in 480 BC.This relief fragment from an altar shows the goddess Artemis with a deer. Artemis was the Greek forerunner of the Roman goddess Diana./ |
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