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Textiles and cult in the ancient Mediterranean / edited by Cecilie BrÃÂ ̧ns and Marie-Louise Nosch.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Ancient textiles series ; 31.
- Ancient Textiles Series ; 31
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shrines.
- History.
- Sacred space.
- Cults.
- Clothing and dress.
- Textile fabrics, Ancient.
- Mediterranean Region--Religious life and customs.
- Mediterranean Region.
- Mediterranean Region--Antiquities.
- Antiquities.
- Textile fabrics, Ancient--Mediterranean Region--Religious aspects--History.
- Clothing and dress--Mediterranean Region--Religious aspects--History.
- Cults--Mediterranean Region--History.
- Sacred space--Mediterranean Region--History.
- Shrines--Mediterranean Region--History.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Mediterranean Region.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Edition:
- Hardback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2017.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- List of contributors
- Foreword and acknowledgements / Cecilie BrÃÂ ̧ns 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 RÃÂ ̧rby 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 LoveÃÂn
- 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 AÃÂngel AndreÃÂs-Toledo
- Modes of textile production in cultic contexts in the Iron Age Southern Levant : the finds from Tell es-SaÃÂfi/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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 10, 2017).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Textiles and cult in the ancient Mediterranean
- ISBN:
- 9781785706738
- 178570673X
- Publisher Number:
- 99974520164
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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