RT Book
T1 Textiles and cult in the ancient Mediterranean
T2 Ancient Textiles Series
T2 Ancient textiles series
A2 Brøns, Cecilie
A2 Nosch, Marie-Louise 1970-
LA English
PP Oxford Philadelphia
PB Oxbow Books
YR 2017
ED Hardback edition
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1003134076
AB "Twenty-four experts from the fields of ancient history, Semitic philology, Assyriology, classical archaeology, and classical philology come together in this volume to explore the role of textiles in ancient religion in Greece, Italy, the Levant and the Near East. Recent scholarship has illustrated how textiles played a large and very important role in the ancient Mediterranean sanctuaries. In Greece, the so-called temple inventories testify to the use of textiles as votive offerings, in particular to female divinities. Furthermore, in several cults, textiles were used to dress the images of different deities. Textiles played an important role in the dress of priests and priestesses, who often wore specific garments designated by particular colours. Clothing regulations in order to enter or participate in certain rituals from several Greek sanctuaries also testify to the importance of dress of ordinary visitors. Textiles were used for the furnishings of the temples, for example in the form of curtains, draperies, wall-hangings, sun-shields, and carpets. This illustrates how the sanctuaries were potential major consumers of textiles; nevertheless, this particular topic has so far not received much attention in modern scholarship. Furthermore, our knowledge of where the textiles consumed in the sanctuaries came from, where they were produced, and by who is extremely limited. Textiles and Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean examines the topics of textile production in sanctuaries, the use of textiles as votive offerings and ritual dress using epigraphy, literary sources, iconography and the archaeological material itself"--Publisher description
AB 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 -- 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 -- 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
NO Includes bibliographical references. - Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 10, 2017)
CN DE61.R44
SN 9781785706738
SN 178570673X
SN 1785706721
SN 9781785706721
K1 Textile fabrics, Ancient : Religious aspects : History : Mediterranean Region
K1 Clothing and dress : Religious aspects : History : Mediterranean Region
K1 Cults : History : Mediterranean Region
K1 Sacred Space : History : Mediterranean Region
K1 Shrines : History : Mediterranean Region
K1 Excavations (archaeology) : Mediterranean Region
K1 Clothing and dress : Mediterranean Region : Religious aspects : History
K1 Shrines : Mediterranean Region : History
K1 Textile fabrics, Ancient : Mediterranean Region : Religious aspects : History
K1 Sacred Space : Mediterranean Region : History
K1 Cults : Mediterranean Region : History
K1 RELIGION ; Reference
K1 Antiquities
K1 Clothing and dress ; Religious aspects
K1 Cults
K1 Excavations (archaeology)
K1 Sacred Space
K1 Shrines
K1 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Textiles & Polymers
K1 History
K1 Clothing and dress
K1 Textile fabrics, Ancient
K1 Mediterranean Region
K1 Mediterranean Region : Religious life and customs
K1 Mediterranean Region : Antiquities : Mediterranean Region
K1 Mediterranean Region : Antiquities
K1 Electronic books : History
K1 Konferenzschrift : 2013 : Kopenhagen