TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ackermann,Guy
TI  - Artemis and dead infants: A new bronze statuette of Artemis Ephesia discovered at Eretria
PY  - 2022///.
							
N1  - 95
N2  - A well in Eretria (on the island of Euboea, Greece) has yielded the first bronze statuette of Artemis Ephesia for which we have a precise context of discovery. The best explanation for its presence alongside the bones of infants who died in the perinatal period is that it was a propitiatory offering made by midwives, who though this gift would have placed their activities under the auspices of Artemis, invoked here as a protective divinity for newborns, dead or alive
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-archeologique-2022-2-page-307?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -