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Textiles and Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean
Marie-Louise Nosch
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Description for Textiles and Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean
Hardback. Twenty-one papers on the role of textiles in ancient religion in Greece, Italy, The Levant and the Near East. 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. Editor(s): Brons, Cecilie; Nosch, Marie-Louise. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HD; HDDC; HDDK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 280 x 216. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxbow Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785706721
SKU
V9781785706721
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About Marie-Louise Nosch
Cecilie Brons is a post-doctoral researcher on the project `Transmission and Transformation. Ancient polychromy in an architectural context' at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen. She has a PhD in Classical archaeology from the National Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen. Her research interests include ancient textiles, ancient polychromy, pigments and dyes, colours of antiquity, ancient Greek cult and religion ... Read more
Reviews for Textiles and Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean
The present volume is an interesting and useful contribution to the study of ancient textiles that enriches our knowledge of their use and value through their examination as visual, tactile and material items.
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Bryn Mawr Classical Review