Le stele votive con dedica a Zeus. Un esempio di interazione culturale in Asia Minore

Abstract

The focus of this paper is to analyse a religious phaenomenon related to a specific area in Phrygia, located between Kütahya and Afyonkarahisar, during the 2^nd and the 3^rd centuries AD. This phaenomenon is marked by votive steles dedicated to Zeus, who in this territory is linked to an Hittite god, Tarḫunt, a protector of agricultural fields whose symbol was thunder. Zeus was thus referred to by different epithets and represented with a particular iconography, associated with the depiction of animals, phytomorphic elements and work instruments.