Oinoe, Ikaria island: fragmentary inscription reproducing an oracle that refers to temple conversion, late 5th/6th century AD

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Title:	Oinoe, Ikaria island: fragmentary inscription reproducing an oracle that refers to temple conversion, late 5th/6th century AD
Start date:	400
End date:	599
Historical Period:	Early Byzantine/Late Antique Period
Description:	Oinoe, Ikaria island: fragmentary inscription reproducing an oracle in which Apollo predicts a temple’s future conversion to a house of Holy Mary (IG 12.6.2.1265); it was intended to provide the island’s community with the ideological justification for the conversion of a pagan temple into a church. Chronological details: late 5th/6th century AD
Place:	Nisí Ikaría, Greece
Languages:	Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Medium:	stone (worked rock)
Project:	BYZART Project
Fond:	OUC Georgios Deligiannakis Archive
Physical type:	inscriptions
Material and technique:	carving (processes)
Data provider:	Open University of Cyprus
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Appears in Collections:	BYZART