Naslov
Sacred sites of Adriatic seamen – examples of long duration as well as transformation of art manifestations of religious attitude towards the Sacred from Antiquity until the Modern Age

Autori
Praničević Borovac, Ita

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Sacralization of Landscape and Sacred Places/ Book of Abstracts. Sakralizacija prostora i sveta mjesta/Knjiga sažetaka / Belaj, Juraj - Zagreb : Institut za arheologiju, 2016, 33-34

Skup
Sacralization of Landscape and Sacred Places, 3. Iternational Conference of Medieval Archaeology /Sakralizacija prostora i sveta mjesta, 3. međunarodni znanstveni skup srednjovjekovne arheologije

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 02.06.2016. - 03.06.2016

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
seamen, Adriatic, continuity of sacred sites, maritime votive image

Sažetak
Sea as a place of living, source of existence, place of contact and exchange is an integrating element of Mediterranean civilizations, but also a place where man's fate is daily put to the test. The original existential need for divine protection has found its ritual forms or way of expression in different religions that in the Mediterranean and the Adriatic, as part of it, have appeared, lasted and changed since the early beginnings shrouded in secrecy of our ignorance until the present. Testimonies of the relation between seamen and travelers toward the Divine and Sacred, of votive gifts and customs since ancient Greek times are brought by a number of literary sources, depicted by works of art and testified by archaeological and hydro-archaeological research. Some customs, cult practices and cult sites, forms and also iconographic solutions in works of art, dating from the period of Greek cultural dominance, can be recognized in later historical epochs as well. Specifically, although the advent and expansion of Christianity meant abandoning many forms of maritme rituals, some have been kept, assuming however, Christian guise. For instance, the need for sacral marking of prominent points around us (on maritime routes) by building cult edifices, with the function of religous shelter, is characteristic of the age of pre- Christianity and Christianity where examples of cult- and cultural stratification are numerous, that is Christian churches built on or near the site of an earlier ancient sanctuary. Further, preserved examples of votive paintings (pínakes) offered by Greek seamen to certain sanctuaries, show some iconographic elements that characterize votive painting with maritime themes that in different shapes appear in Adriatic ports and maritime places of worship from the Middle Ages onwards. After all, seamen of the ancient Mediterranean and our ancestors have in common the tradition of worshipping numerous deities and heroes, that is female and male saints whom they made offerings, entrusted their vessels and their lives.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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