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Σωτηρία

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Athens.

Discussion: Soteria is personified only once in Athenian visual arts, on a lidded pyxis in Athens, on which Basileia is also shown [1]. There is also no known connection of Basileia or Soteria with cults at Athens, any particular deities, or other personifications. One might have expected soteria ( ἡ σωτηρία ) to be popular at Athens throughout the Classical period, as salvation and deliverance were what the city most needed.

Examples:

1. Athens, Fethiye Djami A 8922: a female figure, labelled ΣΩΤΗΡΙΑ , at the birth of Erichthonios, on the body of a lidded pyxis, painted in a style near the Meidias Painter, ca. 420-410.

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