Olympia: Diachronic Development of the Votive Gifts from the 10th to the 5th Centuries B.C. in the Sanctuary of Zeus

美因茨的RöMisch-Germanisches中心博物馆和德国考古研究所雅典系之间的项目合作目的是使用始终如一的考古和统计方法，分析奥林匹亚宙斯圣地从原始大地测量到古典时期(公元前10世纪至公元前5世纪)以金属为主的祭祀祭品的历时发展。通过这种方式，将首次根据现有资料概述奥林匹亚奉献习俗的历史。我们的目标是从历时的角度对奉献者的起源和意图、许愿礼物的赠送和许愿祭品和邪教的发展、圣殿内的活动和圣殿内崇拜的神产生影响。根据在奥林匹亚发现并同时出版的大量祈祷祭品，可以使用坚实的、基本上经过仔细编辑的来源基础来分析这些主题，从而为公元前1千年前半叶这个泛希腊祭祀场所的历史做出实质性贡献。

The aim of project cooperation between the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum in Mainz and the Athens Department of the German Archaeological Institute is the analysis of the diachronic development of the largely metal votive offerings in the Zeus sanctuary of Olympia from the Protogeometric to the Classical period (10th to 5th centuries B.C.), using consistently archaeological and statistical methods. In this way, for the first time an overview of the history of the dedication customs in Olympia shall be developed basing on the available sources. Our aim is to produce results on the origins and intentions of the dedicators, the presentation of votive gifts and the development of votive offerings and cults in a diachronic perspective, the activities in the sanctuary and the gods worshipped in the sanctuary. Based on the huge amount of votive offerings discovered in Olympia and meanwhile published, it is possible to analyse these themes using a solid and mostly carefully edited source base and thus to provide a substantial contribution to the history of the pan-Hellenic cult place in the first half of the 1st millennium B.C.