Open AccessOn Ritual Pollution by Seeing: I.Lindos II 487.1-3 and Hdt. 2.37.5
Author(s) -
Andrej Petrović,
Ivana Petrović
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
gephyra
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.162
H-Index - 3
ISSN - 1309-3924
DOI - 10.37095/gephyra.194071
Subject(s) - stipulation , extant taxon , pollution , art , political science , law , ecology , evolutionary biology , biology
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.
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