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Oinoe, Ikaria island: fragmentary inscription reproducing an oracle that refers to temple conversion, late 5th/6th century AD
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Oinoe, Ikaria island: fragmentary inscription reproducing an oracle in which Apollo predicts a temple’s future conversion to a house of Holy Mary (IG 12.6.2.1265); it was intended to provide the island’s community with the ideological justification for the conversion of a pagan temple into a church.
Open University of Cyprus
Title: Oinoe, Ikaria island: fragmentary inscription reproducing an oracle that refers to temple conversion, late 5th/6th century AD
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Oinoe, Ikaria island: fragmentary inscription reproducing an oracle in which Apollo predicts a temple’s future conversion to a house of Holy Mary (IG 12.
6.
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1265); it was intended to provide the island’s community with the ideological justification for the conversion of a pagan temple into a church.
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