Adorning the beasts: the figuration of animals in sacrificial rituals in Attic pottery of the fifth Century b.C.

• Grant number: 18/23979-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: March 01, 2019
• End date: February 29, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Ancient and Medieval History
• Principal Investigator: Glaydson José da Silva
• Grantee: Erik de Lima Correia
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This work aims to understand the ritual of animal sacrifice from the perspective of artisans who produced attic pottery in the 5th century BC, by means the way they pictured animals. It is known that the bibliography separates the scenes of ceramic figurations of the ritual in three distinct phases ("pre-killing", "the killing" and "post-killing"), then focus is given "pre-killing's" phase, in which live animals are figured in context of ritual. What motivates this research is the fact that the bibliography is not consistent regarding the choice of animals, as well as the way they were figured by the artisans of the Attic region. In this way, analyzes will be made of the animals chosen by the artisans regarding how they were figured and how they interacted with the other elements pictured in the scenes by these artisans, to finally understand this perspective related to this type of worship. (AU)