1. Divine Images Cult Statues in the Ancient Greek World

2. Samian coins with cult image of Hera: Roman Imperial period

3. Plan of the citadel at Tiryns

4. First Hekatompedon at Samos

5. First Heraion on Samos: reconstruction; 7th c.

6. Reconstruction of Apollo temple at Dreros, Crete, interior, ca. 700 BCE

7. Apollo, Leto and Artemis from the temple at Dreros, ca. 700 BCE

8. Samian Heraion: successive stages

9. Goddess from Karphi, Crete ca. 1000 BCE

10. Votive plaque from the Athenian Acropolis, ca. 650-600

11. Goddess with upraised arms on a krater from Vienna.

12. The “smiting god”: Bronze Age example from Cyprus and Greek Zeus from Ugento.

13. Two images from Gazi in Crete, LBA

14. Horned god from Enkomi, end of 13th c. BCE

15. BM 118931, relief from the palace of Tiglath-Pileser III

16. Relief panels 1-3 from Room 64, Palace of Sennacherib in Nineveh

17. Neo-Assyrian relief from Maltaya Iraq, ca. 700. King supplicates deities mounted on animals

18. Lady of Phylakopi, Melos LHIIIB 2

19. Athena Parthenos reconstruction

20. Herm from Siphnos

21. Image of Nemesis at Rhamnous by Agorakritos, Attica, 5th century

22. Diomedes and the Palladion, Athenian red-figure cup, 5th c.

23. Acrolithic statues from Magna Graecia, 5th century BCE.

24. Cult images in terracotta from Grammichele and Paestum, height about 90 cm each

25. Apollo in his temple: fragment of a red-figured krater from Taranto.

26. Maria Rubio with the “Jesus tortilla”

27. Greek “voodoo doll”

28. Athena Parthenos by Pheidias

29. Temple images: the two-category model TRUE CULT IMAGEElaborate VOTIVE OFFERING Small sizeLarge size or colossal Age: ca. 8th-7th cent.Age: ca. 5th-4th cent. WoodStone or chryselephantine Miraculous or legendary originCreated by noted sculptor Little artistic meritGreat artistic merit Manipulated during ritualImmobile, not focus of ritual Full of numinous power; access restricted Access encouraged for prestige value

30. Artemis of Ephesos, Roman copy and modern reconstruction

31. Madonna delle Lacrime from Syracuse: mass- produced chalkware image of the madonna ca. 1954

32. Michelangelo’s Pietà used as a cult image

33. Zeus at Olympia by Pheidias, reconstructions