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Roman Cult Images - The Lives and Worship of Idols from the Iron Age to Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
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Roman Cult Images - The Lives and Worship of Idols from the Iron Age to Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
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In this book, Philip Kiernan explores how cult images functioned in
Roman temples from the Iron Age to Late Antiquity in the Roman
west. He demonstrates how and why a temple's idols, were more
important to ritual than other images such as votive offerings and
decorative sculpture. These idols were seen by many to be divine
and possessed of agency. They were, thus, the primary focus of
worship. Aided by cross-cultural comparative material, Kiernan's
study brings a biographical approach to explore the 'lives' of
idols and cult images - how they were created, housed in temples,
used and worshipped, and eventually destroyed or buried. He also
shows how the status of cult images could change, how new idols and
other cult images were being continuously created, and how, in each
phase of their lives, we find evidence for the significant power of
idols.
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