Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The aim of this contribution is to provide an overview, the result of years of research, of the study and re-examination of some Roman age burials that have yielded terracotta figurines among their grave goods. The aim is to summarise the currently known examples of devotional funerary coroplastics in Sardinia, showing how, among the various toys found in children's tombs, some of them go beyond a simple playful meaning, to become true dedications to deities with protective value. The choice of some of them, by the relatives of the deceased who deposited them as grave goods, is motivated by ethnic as well as religious reasons.
Source: Otium
Author: La Fragola, Alessandra
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W6893141340
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