‘New’ Terracotta Figurines

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A ‘new’ group of around two hundred clay figurines from the Sanctuary of Parthenos was ‘rediscovered’ in the Archaeological Museum of Kavala during the study seasons of the Parthenos Project and can now be added to the large assemblage of votive terracottas published in 2014. The ‘new’ coroplastic finds do not significantly change the suggested chronological span and the typological groupings of the 2014 publication. The majority reproduce archaic types, very few can be dated to the Classical period, and only one-fifth belong to Hellenistic types. Yet, among these ‘new’ figurines are certain iconographic types previously unrecorded in the temenos, such as the foot-shaped plastic vase, the seated plangona (doll), and the boy with a chlamys. Their interpretation further supports the protective qualities of the goddess as an overseer of the transition to adulthood.