study day : Man faced with natural risks in antiquity: fatalism, adaptation, resilience
MSH Bordeaux, December 16, 2022

“The maintenance of statues at Delos: sanctuaries tested by environmental conditions in Antiquity”
Francis Prost, university professor, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, UMR 7041, ARSCAN, Francis.Prost[at]univ- paris1.fr

Keywords: Statues, protection, restoration, Delos

The purpose of this intervention will be to return to some of the maintenance operations of the statues in the sanctuary of Delos, attested by epigraphy as well as by archaeological observation, and to draw up an inventory of the measures that, in the Antiquity, religious authorities could adopt in order to preserve and restore carved offerings.