Gods, objects, and ritual practice

Weitere Verfasser: Blakely, Sandra, 1959- , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Atlanta, GA : Lockwood Press, 2017.
Umfang/Format: xxi, 347 pages : illustrations
Schriftenreihe: Studies in ancient Mediterranean religions nr. 1
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction : object, image, and text : materiality and ritual practice in the ancient Mediterranean / Sandra Blakely
  • Divine twins or saintly twins : the dioscuri in the early Christian context / Annewies van den Hoek
  • Altars, astragaloi, Achilles : picturing divination on Athenian vases / Sheramy D. Bundrick
  • Incarnating the Aurea aetas : theomorphic rhetoric and the portraits of Nero / Eric R. Varner
  • No more than one candle, torch, or wreath : private citizens and the commemoration of L. Caesar at Pisa / J. Bert Lott
  • The cadence of the language of magic in Greek curse tablets and First Corinthians / Jill E. Marshall
  • Sacred objects, material value, and invective in Cicero's Verrines II 4 / Isabel Köster
  • Local production and domestic ritual use of small rectangular incense altars : a petrographic provenience analysis and examination of craftsmanship of the Tell Halif incense altars / Seung Ho Bang, Oded Borowski, Kook Young Yoon, Yuval Goren
  • Judaean pillar figurines and the making of female piety in ancient Israelite religion / Erin Darby
  • Priestesses in action : ritual instruments employed by Roman women / Meghan J. DiLuzio
  • Rhetoric, repetition, and identity in the frieze of sacred objects on the Temple of Divus Vespasian and Divus Titus / Susan Ludi Blevins
  • Channeling identity : the fountain of Glauke in Corinth and Jacob's well in John 4 / Eric Moore
  • "In this holy place" : incubation at hot springs in Roman and late antique Palestine / Megan S. Nutzman
  • Gods, graves, and extratextual rituals in archaic colonial Sicily / Lela M. Urquhart