Textiles And Cult In The Ancient Mediterranean

Author : Cecilie Brøns,Marie-Louise Nosch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785706738

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Textiles and Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean by Cecilie Brøns,Marie-Louise Nosch Pdf

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.

Author : Susanna Harris,Cecilie Brøns,Marta Zuchowska
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789257229

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Textiles in Ancient Mediterranean Iconography by Susanna Harris,Cecilie Brøns,Marta Zuchowska Pdf

This volume provides an ambitious synopsis of the complex, colourful world of textiles in ancient Mediterranean iconography. A wealth of information on ancient textiles is available from depictions such as sculpture, vase painting, figurines, reliefs and mosaics. Commonly represented in clothing, textiles are also present in furnishings and through the processes of textile production. The challenge for anyone analysing ancient iconography is determining how we interpret what we see. As preserved textiles rarely survive in comparable forms, we must consider the extent to which representations of textiles reflect reality, and critically evaluate the sources. Images are not simple replicas or photographs of reality. Instead, iconography draws on select elements from the surrounding world that were recognisable to the ancient audience, and reveal the perceptions, ideologies, and ideas of the society in which they were produced. Through examining the durable evidence, this anthology reveals the ephemeral world of textiles and their integral role in the daily life, cult and economy of the ancient Mediterranean.

Author : Cecilie Brøns,Marie-Louise Nosch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785706752

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Textiles and Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean by Cecilie Brøns,Marie-Louise Nosch Pdf

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.

Author : Cecilie Brøns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Clothing and dress
ISBN : 1785703579

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Gods and Garments by Cecilie Brøns Pdf

Author : Cecilie Br¿ns
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781785703560

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Gods and Garments by Cecilie Br¿ns Pdf

Textiles comprise a vast and wide category of material culture and constitute a crucial part of the ancient economy. Yet, studies of classical antiquity still often leave out this important category of material culture, partly due to the textiles themselves being only rarely preserved in the archaeological record. This neglect is also prevalent in scholarship on ancient Greek religion and ritual, although it is one of the most vibrant and rapidly developing branches of classical scholarship. The aim of the present enquiry is, therefore, to introduce textiles into the study of ancient Greek religion and thereby illuminate the roles textiles played in the performance of Greek ritual and their wider consequences. Among the questions posed are how and where we can detect the use of textiles in the sanctuaries, and how they were used in rituals including their impact on the performance of these rituals and the people involved. Chapters centre on three themes: first, the dedication of textiles and clothing accessories in Greek sanctuaries is investigated through a thorough examination of the temple inventories. Second, the use of textiles to dress ancient cult images is explored. The examination of Hellenistic and Roman copies of ancient cult images from Asia Minor as well as depictions of cult images in vase-painting in collocation with written sources illustrates the existence of this particular ritual custom in ancient Greece. Third, the existence of dress codes in the Greek sanctuaries is addressed through an investigation of the existence of particular attire for ritual personnel as well as visitors to the sanctuaries with the help of iconography and written sources. By merging the study of Greek religion and the study of textiles, the current study illustrates how textiles are, indeed, central materialisations of Greek cult, by reason of their capacity to accentuate and epitomize aspects of identity, spirituality, position in the religious system, by their forms as links between the maker, user, wearer, but also as key material agents in the performance of rituals and communication with the divine.

Author : Kerstin Droß-Krüpe,Marie-Louise Nosch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : International trade
ISBN : 3868352244

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Textiles, Trade and Theories by Kerstin Droß-Krüpe,Marie-Louise Nosch Pdf

Author : Anthony Bonanno
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789060322888

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Archaeology and Fertility Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean by Anthony Bonanno Pdf

The papers in this volume derive from the First International Conference on Archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean (Malta, 1985). The field remains divided between the view supporting the existence of a universal belief in an all-pervading and all-embracing Mother Goddess – of which the fertility cult is just one, albeit important, aspect – and the view questioning the very bases of that theory. This conference showed that there seems to be a greater disposition for further dialogue. The fertility content in Near Eastern and Classical religions remains indisputable. The conference proved to be also, not accidentally, of special significance to Maltese archaeology. The volume is divided into four sections: Section I. Prehistory; Section II. Prehistory, Malta; Section III. Phoenician and Near Eastern Religions; Section IV. The Greco-Roman World.

Author : J. A. Baird,April Pudsey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781108845267

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Housing in the Ancient Mediterranean World by J. A. Baird,April Pudsey Pdf

Explores the possible dialogues between textual and archaeological sources in studying housing in the ancient Mediterranean world.

Author : Alicia J. Batten,Kelly Olson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567684684

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Dress in Mediterranean Antiquity by Alicia J. Batten,Kelly Olson Pdf

Insights from anthropology, religious studies, biblical studies, sociology, classics, and Jewish studies are here combined to provide a cutting-edge guide to dress and religion in the Greco-Roman World and the Mediterranean basin. Clothing, jewellery, cosmetics, and hairstyles are among the many aspects examined to show the variety of functions of dress in communication and in both establishing and defending identity. The volume begins by reviewing how scholars in the fields of classics, anthropology, religious studies, and sociology examine dress. The second section then looks at materials, including depictions of clothing in sculpture and in Egyptian mummy portraits. The third (and largest) part of the book then examines dress in specific contexts, beginning with Greece and Rome and going on to Jewish and Christian dress, with a specific focus on the intersection between dress, clothing and religion. By combining essays from over twenty scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds, the book provides a unique overview of different approaches to and contexts of dress in one volume, leading to a greater understanding of dress both within ancient societies and in the contemporary world.

Author : Salvatore Gaspa,CŽcile Michel,Marie-Louise Nosch
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Mediterranean Region
ISBN : 9781609621124

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Textile Terminologies from the Orient to the Mediterranean and Europe, 1000 BC to 1000 AD by Salvatore Gaspa,CŽcile Michel,Marie-Louise Nosch Pdf

The papers in this volume derive from the conference on textile terminology held in June 2014 at the University of Copenhagen. Around 50 experts from the fields of Ancient History, Indo-European Studies, Semitic Philology, Assyriology, Classical Archaeology, and Terminology from twelve different countries came together at the Centre for Textile Research, to discuss textile terminology, semantic fields of clothing and technology, loan words, and developments of textile terms in Antiquity. They exchanged ideas, research results, and presented various views and methods. This volume contains 35 chapters, divided into five sections: - Textile terminologies across the ancient Near East and the Southern Levant - Textile terminologies in Europe and Egypt - Textile terminologies in metaphorical language and poetry - Textile terminologies: examples from China and Japan - Technical terms of textiles and textile tools and methodologies of classifications

Author : Matthew Dillon,Esther Eidinow,Lisa Maurizio
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134780525

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Women's Ritual Competence in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean by Matthew Dillon,Esther Eidinow,Lisa Maurizio Pdf

Contributions in this volume demonstrate how, across the ancient Mediterranean and over hundreds of years, women’s rituals intersected with the political, economic, cultural, or religious spheres of their communities in a way that has only recently started to gain sustained academic attention. The volume aims to tease out a number of different approaches and contexts, and to expand existing studies of women in the ancient world as well as scholarship on religious and social history. The contributors face a famously difficult task: ancient authors rarely recorded aspects of women’s lives, including their songs, prophecies, and prayers. Many of the objects women made and used in ritual were perishable and have not survived; certain kinds of ritual objects (lowly undecorated pots, for example) tend not even to be recorded in archaeological reports. However, the broad range of contributions in this volume demonstrates the multiplicity of materials that can be used as evidence – including inscriptions, textiles, ceramics, figurative art, and written sources – and the range of methodologies that can be used, from analysis of texts, images, and material evidence to cognitive and comparative approaches.

Author : Alistair Dickey,Margarita Gleba,Sarah Hitchens,Gabriella Longhitano
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789257267

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Exploring Ancient Textiles by Alistair Dickey,Margarita Gleba,Sarah Hitchens,Gabriella Longhitano Pdf

Over the past 30 years, research on archaeological textiles has developed into an important field of scientific study. It has greatly benefited from interdisciplinary approaches, which combine the application of advanced technological knowledge to ethnographic, textual and experimental investigations. In exploring textiles and textile processing (such as production and exchange) in ancient societies, archaeologists with different types and quality of data have shared their knowledge, thus contributing to well-established methodology. In this book, the papers highlight how researchers have been challenged to adapt or modify these traditional and more recently developed analytical methods to enable extraction of comparable data from often recalcitrant assemblages. Furthermore, they have applied new perspectives and approaches to extend the focus on less investigated aspects and artefacts. The chapters embrace a broad geographical and chronological area, ranging from South America and Europe to Africa, and from the 11th millennium BC to the 1st millennium AD. Methodological considerations are explored through the medium of three different themes focusing on tools, textiles and fibres, and culture and identity. This volume constitutes a reflection on the status of current methodology and its applicability within the wider textile field. Moreover, it drives forward the methodological debates around textile research to generate new and stimulating conversations about the future of textile archaeology.

Author : Mary Harlow,Cecile Michel,Louise Quillien
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781350141513

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Textiles and Gender in Antiquity by Mary Harlow,Cecile Michel,Louise Quillien Pdf

This volume looks at how the issues of textiles and gender intertwine across three millennia in antiquity and examines continuities and differences across time and space – with surprising resonances for the modern world. The interplay of gender, identity, textile production and use is notable on many levels, from the question of who was involved in the transformation of raw materials into fabric at one end, to the wearing of garments and the construction of identity at the other. Textile production has often been considered to follow a linear trajectory from a domestic (female) activity to a more 'commercial' or 'industrial' (male-centred) mode of production. In reality, many modes of production co-existed and the making of textiles is not so easily grafted onto the labour of one sex or the other. Similarly, textiles once transformed into garments are often of 'unisex' shape but worn to express the gender of the wearer. As shown by the detailed textual source material and the rich illustrations in this volume, dress and gender are intimately linked in the visual and written records of antiquity. The contributors show how it is common practice in both art and literature not only to use particular garments to characterize one sex or the other, but also to undermine characterizations by suggesting that they display features usually associated with the opposite gender.

Author : Didem Ekici,Patricia Blessing,Basile Baudez
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000900446

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Textile in Architecture by Didem Ekici,Patricia Blessing,Basile Baudez Pdf

This book investigates the interconnections between textile and architecture via a variety of case studies from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century and from diverse geographic contexts. Among the oldest human technologies, building and weaving have intertwined histories. Textile structures go back to Palaeolithic times and are still in use today and textile furnishings have long been used in interiors. Beyond its use as a material, textile has offered a captivating model and metaphor for architecture through its ability to enclose, tie together, weave, communicate, and adorn. Recently, architects have shown a renewed interest in the textile medium due to the use of computer-aided design, digital fabrication, and innovative materials and engineering. The essays edited and compiled here, work across disciplines to provide new insights into the enduring relationship between textiles and architecture. The contributors critically explore the spatial and material qualities of textiles as well as cultural and political significance of textile artifacts, patterns, and metaphors in architecture. Textile in Architecture is organized into three sections: “Ritual Spaces,” which examines the role of textiles in the formation and performance of socio-political, religious, and civic rituals; “Public and Private Interiors” explores how textiles transformed interiors corresponding to changing aesthetics, cultural values, and material practices; and “Materiality and Material Translations,” which considers textile as metaphor and model in the materiality of built environment. Including cases from Morocco, Samoa, France, India, the UK, Spain, the Ancient Andes and the Ottoman Empire, this is essential reading for any student or researcher interested in textiles in architecture through the ages.

Author : Antony Bonanno
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : OCLC:1030116466

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Archaeology and Fertility Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean by Antony Bonanno Pdf