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Webb, Virginia,
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Egyptian archetypes and their adoption/adaptation in Archaic East Greece: A Tale of Two (City) Sanctuaries  
DOI: https://doi.org/10.71067/AePIX-2025-317-380 
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Aegyptus et Pannonia IX, Acta Symposii anno 2023, objects and Concepts.
Proceedings of the Conference held 19th-20th Januar, 2023, Budapest; ed. by Hedvig Győry.
Published by The Ancient Egyptian Committee of the Hungarian-Egyptian Friendship Society, Budapest 2025.
ISBN: 978-615-6571-04-5 (printed), ISBN 978-615-6571-05-2 (pdf); DOI: https://doi.org/10.71067/AePIX-2025
Soft cover. No Jacket. 1.st Edition. 18+380 pages (24x17), with colour pictures.

Abstract
The two mighty cities of Miletos and Samos in the eastern Aegean were heavily involved in the trade with Egypt, and in Egyptian and Egyptianising objects, in particular faience, from the eighth century BC onwards. This predates the establishment of Naukratis, ca 630 BC, and illustrates the fact that both imports and local workshops were responsible for the large quantity and varied types of objects found in Greece. The two sanctuaries, of Hera on Samos, and of Aphrodite at Miletos, received a large mount of these objects, both imported and locally manufactured – scarabs, amulets, figurines and vessels. However, of particular interest is that there is a very great difference between the two sanctuaries in the choice of such faience objects for dedication as votives. This article examines the differences and attempts to explain what factors were at work in the reception of Egyptianising material. It discusses what light this difference throws on the dedication practices of the two sanctuaries, and their
relationship with Egyptian material and religious culture.