On Ritual Pollution by Seeing: I.Lindos II 487.1-3 and Hdt. 2.37.5

Petrovic, A.; Petrovic, I.

On Ritual Pollution by Seeing: I.Lindos II 487.1-3 and Hdt. 2.37.5

Petrovic, A.; Petrovic, I.

Authors

A. Petrovic

I. Petrovic

Abstract

This paper focuses on the request not to look at breast-fed children attested at the beginning of the cathartic regulation from the sanctuary of Athena Lindia in Rhodes (I.Lindos II 487 = LSS 91). We highlight uniqueness of visual taboos in extant Greek sacred regulations, and suggest that the stipulation from the Lindian sanctuary of Athena may have been influenced by Egyptian purity precepts.

Citation

Petrovic, A., & Petrovic, I. (2014). On Ritual Pollution by Seeing: I.Lindos II 487.1-3 and Hdt. 2.37.5. Gephyra, 11, 29-35

Journal Article Type	Article
Online Publication Date	May 15, 2014
Publication Date	Jan 1, 2014
Deposit Date	Nov 2, 2015
Publicly Available Date	Feb 22, 2016
Journal	Gephyra : Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Antike auf dem Gebiet der heutigen Türkei = Günümüz Türkiyesiʼnin antik devirʼdeki tarihi ve kültürü için dergi.
Print ISSN	1309-3924
Publisher	Archaeology and Art Publications
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	11
Pages	29-35
Keywords	Abstentions, Athena Lindia, Beans, Nursing, Pollution, Purity, Visual taboo.
Publisher URL	http://edergi.akdeniz.edu.tr/index.php/Gephyra/article/view/741