Strength: Snakes are symbols of strength or courage. Thus, snakes hint at the protective environment one is into.Ģ. Safety: Snakes aren't fragile or fearing creatures, they are more of the safe and calm type! It is believed that they won't attack unless felt threatened or scared by our activities. These recontextualised offerings will be assessed in the light of what we know of religious practices and beliefs at the site and beyond, in order to measure to what extent Naukratis fits the (Lower) Egyptian religious picture in the Late Period.1. A few Egyptian votives discovered within Greek sanctuaries will be briefly mentioned. Despite the many challenges that the recontextualisation of these finds presents, these contexts offer a unique insight into Egyptian religious practices and beliefs at Naukratis. Two particularly rich contexts are considered here, the ‘cache of bronzes’ discovered by Flinders Petrie in 1885, and deposits excavated in the vicinity of the Great Temenos by Francis Llewellyn Griffith in 1885 and David Hogarth in 1903. This paper focuses especially on contexts in which Egyptian votive and/or ritual objects were consecrated or deposited. The Naukratis Project brought to light the underestimated Egyptian aspect of the Naukratite material culture, helping to outline the contemporaneous existence of different systems of beliefs – and their possible interaction or separation – in the cosmopolitan city.
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