Textiles and cult in the ancient Mediterranean

Weitere Verfasser: Brøns, Cecilie. , [HerausgeberIn]
Nosch, Marie-Louise , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: 2017
Umfang/Format: xiii, 257 pages : partly coloured illustrations ; 28 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Ancient textiles series ; 31
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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