Archaic II

Wing woman with incense pool

Wing woman with incense pelvis incense victims were of central importance in the cult of the Paphische Aphrodite and formed an important part of all cultic ceremonies.Sacrifices were consecration or incense pool (thymiateria), which mostly consisted of clay, bronze, precious metal, rarely of stone.One of the few obtained examples of figuratively decorated lime stone thyme, which are influenced in their topic Egyptian and Phoenician, is the incense pool with the wing woman.In the outstretched hands she holds a winged sun disk, the symbol of the Egyptian God Horus.A.Bernhard-Walcher u.Collection catalogs of the KHM Vol. 2, Vienna: 1999 25 cmBasis: 10,8 cm × 10,6 cmBecken: 10 cm