Textiles and cult in the ancient Mediterranean
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Brøns, Cecilie.
, [HerausgeberIn]
Nosch, Marie-Louise , [HerausgeberIn] |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
2017
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| Umfang/Format: |
xiii, 257 pages : partly coloured illustrations ; 28 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Ancient textiles series ;
31 |
| Schlagworte: | |
| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 23 Datensätze |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Astral symbols on a loom weight from Adjiyska Vodenitsa (ancient Pistiros), Thrace : measurement, astronomy, and cult / Zosia Halina Archibald
- Part III. Italy
- Building V and ritual textile production at Timpone della Motta / Signe Grove Saxkjaer, Jan Kindberg Jacobsen and Gloria Paola Mittica
- The loom weights from the "Scarico di Grotta Vanella" : evidence for a sanctuary on the North Acropolis of Segesta? / Hedvig Landenius Enegren
- Loom weights in sacred contexts : the square building of the Heraion near the mouth of the Sele River / Bianca Ferrara and Francesco Meo
- "Temple key" or distaff? : an ambiguous artefact from the Greek and indigenous sanctuaries of Southern Italy / Alessandro Quercia
- On priests, priestesses, and clothing in Roman cult practices / Lena Larsson Lovén
- Part III. The Levant and the Near East
- Textiles in Assyrian and Babylonian temples of the 1st millennium BCE / Salvatore Gaspa
- List of contributors
- Foreword and acknowledgements / Cecilie Brøns and Marie-Louise Nosch
- Part I. Greece
- Offering of cloth and/or clothing to the sanctuaries : a case of ritual continuity from the 2nd to the 1st millennium BCE in the Aegean? / Tina Boloti
- What does the clothing say about the killer? : some thoughts on textiles in depictions of sacrifice in archaic Athens / Karine Riviere
- Not nothing : conceptualising textile whiteness for cult practice / Liza Cleland
- Weaving the Chalkeia reconstruction and ritual of an Athenian festival / Jacquelyn H. Clements
- Dress, code and identity-of-place in Greek religion : some cases from classical and Hellenistic Athens / Karen Rørby Kristensen and Jens A. Krasilnikoff
- Textiles go public : priestly dress in the ancient Mediterranean : Herodotus as a source-book / Maria Gerolemou
- Headdress for success : cultic uses of the Hellenistic Mitra / Maria Papadopoulou
- Textile production in the Neo-Babylonian Eanna archive / Elizabeth E. Payne
- The description of Anahita's attire in the Yast 5 / Miguel Ángel Andrés-Toledo
- Modes of textile production in cultic contexts in the Iron Age Southern Levant : the finds from Tell es-Sâfi/Gath / Deborah Cassuto
- The high priest's garments of mixed wool and linen (sha'atnez) compared to textiles found in the land of Israel / Orit Shamir
- Between fashion phenomena and status symbols : contextualising the wardrobe of the so-called "former priests" of Palmyra / Rubina Raja
- Women in Palmyrene rituals and religious practices / Signe Krag
- Part IV. Late antiquity
- Textiles as gifts to god in late antiquity Christian altar cloths as cultic objects / Sean V. Leatherbury
