LENGER, Dinçer Savaş Akdeniz Üniversitesi - Edebiyat Fakültesi - Tarih Bölümü, Turkey

Votive Coins from Arpalık Tepe Cave Sanctuary

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During the rescue excavation conducted at Yumaklar/Arpalık Tepe in Pisidia by archeologists from the Antalya Archeology Museum in 1998, a cave sanctuary was discovered. As votive offerings: terracotta and bronze figurines, pottery shards, miniature votives and coins found indicate it was used from the VIth century B.C. to the IVth century A.D. Examination and classification of 714 coins founded at the entrance to the cave according to period, placed mint places and their statistics provide the periods of use of the sacred place and of, the pilgrimage movements during these periods.

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Arpalık Tepe , cave , sanctuary , votive , coins , Selge , Pisidia

Mediterranean Journal Of Humanities

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