Pagan Statuettes in Late Antique Corinth: Sculpture from the Panayia Domus

by Lea M. Stirling

Hesperia, Volume 77, Issue 1
Page(s): 89-161
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25068051
Year: 2008
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ABSTRACT:

Excavations in 1999 at the Panayia Domus at Corinth uncovered nine statuettes representing Artemis (twice), Asklepios (twice), Roma, Dionysos, Herakles, Europa/Sosandra, and Pan, the contents of a probable domestic shrine in a small, plain room. The statuettes range in date from the late 1st to the mid-3rd or early 4th century A.D. Four are late products of Attic sarcophagus workshops. The figure of Roma is a unique domestic example of this divinity and may refer to a local monument and to the status of the owner. Other statuettes are typical of domestic assemblages in Late Roman Greece.