![]() As a consequence, I will argue for a Late Bronze Age date of the ritual practice of burning certain parts of the victim. ![]() In addition, the entry di-wo-nu-so-jo e-ka-ra, the hearth (ἐσχάρα) of Dionysus, documented on tablet Ea 102+107 from Pylos, seems to provide textual evidence for the existence of a sacrificial hearth or altar serving as a structure where the fire was lit and the offering burnt. Recently, possible evidence for burnt animal sacrifice was reported for several Mycenaean sites by the means of observation of heavily burnt and carbonized animal bones taken as indication for this kind of offering (as distinguished from unburnt or lightly charred osteological material taken to represent the refuse left from ritual meals). ![]() The question of whether the ritual of burnt animal sacrifice (θυσία or ‘Brandopfer’), involving the ritual burning of bare bones wrapped in fat and covered with small pieces of meat representing the god’s portion, was practiced in Mycenaean Greece has been the subject of some discussion. ![]()
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