ABSTRACT
The Hellenistic period is a fruitful one in which to examine the significance of sacred mobility and ritual movement in the ancient Greek world. This is especially true of the sacred Panhellenic festivals established in various Greek city-states of the eastern Mediterranean between 300 and 120 BC. In 208 BC, the citizens of Magnesia-on-the-Meander, a polis of rather mediocre size in Asia Minor situated in the Meander valley between Ephesos and Tralleis, established a new festival to their patronal deity Artemis Leukophryene in celebration of an epiphany of the goddess 15 years earlier. The festival was to be held under the name of Leukophryena every four years. Archaeological approaches have an important share in the reconstruction of ritual movements in ancient Greek festive culture. On the one hand, they provide methods to reconstruct processional trajectories from the infrastructural settings of the sacred topographies.
