Archaic Period, 600s bce. Altar stone inscribed to Ortheia with an embedded sickle. Inscriptions outside Sparta begin to speak of Artemis Ortheia by the 5th century bc, as the fusion of older forms with the Olympian pantheon proceeded.
Archaic Period, 600s bce. Altar stone inscribed to Ortheia with an embedded sickle. Inscriptions outside Sparta begin to speak of Artemis Ortheia by the 5th century bc, as the fusion of older forms with the Olympian pantheon proceeded.