Carroll, M. (2026). "Lindos Grove." Gardens of the Roman Empire, accessed October 2, 2026. https://roman-gardens.github.io/id/0cce51bdc8/

Lindos Grove

Published: 2026-10-01
Last modified: 2026-10-01

Dates

first to third centuries CE

Excavation Dates

unspecified

Garden Description

There is no archaeological evidence for a sacred grove on the acropolis of the Rhodian town of Lindos. Roman inscriptions, however, record the existence of olive trees in a religious context. The names of several priests who made a gift of olive trees are preserved in a text dating to ca. 50 CE. These were priests of Athena, Apollo and Sarapis, each of them donating 10 or 20 trees, but also of Dionysos; the number of trees the latter donated is not given. Other inscriptions of the third century CE name Aglochartos as a generous donor of olive trees to Athena that were meant for her precinct on the acropolis at Lindos (IG XII.1.781-783).

Bibliography

  • Bousquet, J. 1976. “Les oliviers de Lindos”. In Recueil Plassart, edited by A. Plassart, 9-46. Paris : Le Belles Lettres. (worldcat)
  • Birge, D. E. 1982. Sacred Groves in the Ancient Greek World. PhD thesis, University of California, Berkeley. (worldcat)

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