Hold Your Horses – Animals in Ancient Thrace
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Stella Nikolova [1]
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[1] Sofia University
Sofia University
Bulgaria
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- Localización: New Frontiers in Archaeology: proceedings of the Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology Conference 2019 / Kyra Kaercher (ed. lit.), Monique Arntz (ed. lit.), Nancy Bomentre (ed. lit.), Xosé L. Hermoso Buxán (ed. lit.), Kevin Day (ed. lit.), Sabrina Ki (ed. lit.), Ruairidh Macleod (ed. lit.), Helena Muñoz Mojado (ed. lit.), Lucy Timbrell (ed. lit.), Izzy Wisher (ed. lit.), 2019, ISBN 978-1-78969-794-0, págs. 164-177
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The goal of this paper is to explore human-animal interactions in Thrace from the Hellenistic to the Roman period based on the available published data. The region dealt with in this paper covers the territory of present-day northern Greece, Bulgaria, a small fraction of northern Macedonia and southern Romania. The role of the horse is discussed in detail, since it was the animal that is linked with the Thracian elite. Horses were sacrificed and placed in rich burial complexes, making them the most represented animal in burials, but the least represented in settlements and rarely present in ritual sites. They are widely portrayed in art from Hellenistic frescoes and artefacts, to the Roman period votives of the so-called Thracian horseman.
