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Textiles and Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean (Hardcover)
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Textiles and Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean (Hardcover)
Series: Ancient Textiles Series, 31
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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.
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