Icon, cult, and context : sacred spaces and objects in the classical world : essays in honor of Susan B. Downey

Parallelsachtitel: Sacred spaces and objects in the classical world
Weitere Verfasser: Downey, Susan B., 1938-
Heyn, Maura K.
Steinsapir, Ann Irvine
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Los Angeles : UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2016.
Umfang/Format: xxv, 203 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : llustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 24 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Monograph (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA) ; 82
ISBN: 9781938770067
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • From Heracles to Zeus Megistos : Susan Downey's academic contributions / Maura K. Heyn and Ann Irvine Steinsapir
  • Menerva on the couch : a votive figurine from Cerveteri of unusual iconography / Helen (Ili) Nagy
  • A new interpretation of the Mounted Hunters in the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos / Lucinda Dirven
  • Revisiting the "Temple of Bel" at Dura-Europos : a note on the fragmentary fresco from the Naos / Ted Kaizer
  • Ariadne transformed in Pompeii's House of Fabius Rufus / Lillian B. Joyce
  • The importance of being Venus / Eve D'Ambra
  • A portrait of a bearded man flanked by Isis and Serapis / Mary Louise Hart
  • A Deuteronomic theme and second sophistic rhetoric in the Dura-Europos Synagogue paintings / May Oppenheim Talbot
  • The religious iconography of Roman cameo glass / Karol B. Wight
  • Pharaohs putting some skene in the game : the Hellenistic sculptural program of the Sarapieion at Saqqara and the Ptolemaic Crown / Shanna Kennedy-Quigley
  • The Sanctuary of Artemis Leukophryene as an expression of conflicted civic Identity / Amanda Herring
  • Recent discoveries concerning religious life in Europos-Dura / Pierre Leriche.