Textiles and cult in the ancient Mediterranean:

"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 illustr...

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Weitere Verfasser: Brøns, Cecilie (HerausgeberIn), Nosch, Marie-Louise 1970- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Tagungsbericht Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford ; Philadelphia Oxbow Books 2017
Schriftenreihe:Ancient textiles series 31
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Zusammenfassung:"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
Beschreibung:"The present volume ist the result of the conference "Textiles and Cult in the Mediterranean Area in the 1st Millennium BC", held in Copenhagen in November 2013 [...]" - Vorwort
Beschreibung:xiii, 257 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:9781785706721
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