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Ras il-Wardija Sanctuary Revisited - A re-assessment of the evidence and newly informed interpretations of a Punic-Roman sanctuary in Gozo (Malta) (Paperback)
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Ras il-Wardija Sanctuary Revisited - A re-assessment of the evidence and newly informed interpretations of a Punic-Roman sanctuary in Gozo (Malta) (Paperback)
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The secluded sanctuary on the coastal promontory of Ras il-Wardija
on the central Mediterranean island of Gozo (near Malta)
constitutes another landmark on the religious map of the ancient
Mediterranean. Ritual activity at the sanctuary seems to be
evidenced from around the 3rd century BC to the 2nd century AD and,
possibly, even as late as the 4th century AD. This ritual activity
was focused in a small built temple and in a rock-cut cave that
seems to have incorporated a built extension in a later stage. But
the practised cult or cults were aniconic and remained so largely
throughout. This may explain why the sanctuary's excavators did not
report any findings of statuettes or any figural images.
Contemporaneously, figural images were also venerated on other
sites showing that, for a long while, iconism and aniconism
co-existed on the Maltese islands. There might have been more than
one deity venerated in this sanctuary. Dionysos could have been one
of them. But whoever they were, they are likely to have been
somehow connected with the sea and / or with a maritime community
or communities as the sanctuary itself evidently was.
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