Terres cuites figurées du dépôt votif de Kirrha : de l'établissement du matériel à son exploitation

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The french excavations between 1936 and 1938 in Kirrha have brought to light a large votive deposit containing many terracotta figurines and miniaturistic vases dated to the archaic and classical periods. This deposit was found in front of a temple which was identified as that of Apollo, Artemis and Leto, mentioned by Pausanias. The study of the terracottas, begun in 2013, does not yet confirm this hypothesis, but gives us some interesting informations on the votive practices, the religious rituals and the sphere of activities of the divinity (or the divinities) honored in this small coastal shrine. In this communication, we will first present the repertory of the iconographic types, and then we will try to explain his presence in this specific context, in order to characterize the cult and the divinity.