Cecilie Brøns - Textiles and Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean

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Names: Brns, Cecilie, editor. | Nosch, Marie-Louise, editor.

Title: Textiles and cult in the ancient Mediterranean / edited by Cecilie Brns and Marie-Louise Nosch.

Description: Hardback edition. | Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2017. | Series: Ancient textiles series ; 31 | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017010678 (print) | LCCN 2017028756 (ebook) | ISBN 9781785706738 (epub) | ISBN 9781785706745 (mobi) | ISBN 9781785706752 (pdf) | ISBN 9781785706721 (hardback)

Subjects: LCSH: Mediterranean RegionReligious life and customs. | Mediterranean Region--Antiquities. | Textile fabrics, AncientMediterranean RegionReligious aspectsHistory. | Clothing and dressMediterranean RegionReligious aspectsHistory. | CultsMediterranean RegionHistory. | Sacred spaceMediterranean RegionHistory. | ShrinesMediterranean RegionHistory. | Excavations (Archaeology)Mediterranean Region.

Classification: LCC DE61.R44 (ebook) | LCC DE61.R44 T49 2017 (print) | DDC 203/.70937dc23

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Front cover: Detail of the Parthenon frieze The Trustees of the British Museum.

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Contents

Cecilie Brns and Marie-Louise Nosch

Tina Boloti

Karine Rivire

Liza Cleland

Jacquelyn H. Clements

Karen Rrby Kristensen and Jens A. Krasilnikoff

Maria Gerolemou

Maria Papadopoulou

Zosia Halina Archibald

Sine Grove Saxkjr, Jan Kindberg Jacobsen and Gloria Paola Mittica

Hedvig Landenius Enegren

Bianca Ferrara and Francesco Meo

Alessandro Quercia

Lena Larsson Lovn

Salvatore Gaspa

Elizabeth E. Payne

Miguel ngel Andrs-Toledo

Deborah Cassuto

Orit Shamir

Rubina Raja

Signe Krag

Sean V. Leatherbury

List of contributors

MIGUEL NGEL ANDRS-TOLEDO is Adjunct Professor at the Department of Classical Philology and Indo-European Linguistics of the University of Salamanca, Spain, where he also worked as a Research Assistant (20052009) and obtained the degree of Doctor Europeus with his PhD Vdvdd 1012: Critical Edition, Translation and Commentary of the Avestan and Pahlavi Texts. He has also been Post-doctoral Research Assistant at the lnstitut fr lranistik of the Freie Universitt Berlin, Germany (20102013); Associate Professor and Marie Curie Fellow at The Danish National Research Foundations Center for Textile Research of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark (20132015); and Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Asian and African Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (2016). His research interests are Old and Middle Iranian languages and literatures, Old Indian languages and literatures, Zoroastrianism, Avestan and Pahlavi manuscripts and textual criticism, Iranian and Indian lexicography, and Indo-Iranian and Indo-European linguistics.

ZOSIA ARCHIBALD teaches Classical Archaeology and Ancient History in the Department of Archaeology, Classics, and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool. She directed the British field programme at Pistiros, Bulgaria, between 1999 and 2013, and is currently co-Director of the Olynthos Project (20142020) in Chalkidice, Greece. Her principal research interests are in ancient economies, the social and economic history of the Mediterranean area, and the later prehistory of southern Europe.

TINA BOLOTI is an archaeologist and holds a PhD from 2016 at the University of Crete co-financed by the European Union (European Social Fund ESF) and Greek national funds (Research Funding Program: Heraclitus II). Her thesis, which examines the functional and symbolic role of cloth and clothing in rituals in the Aegean Late Bronze Age, constitutes a combined study of the related iconography and the Linear B archives. She participates in archaeological/research programmes of The Archaeological Society in Athens (with publications of the Greek excavations at Mycenae) and the Academy of Athens (research in the prehistoric settlement on Koukonisi, Lemnos), and she is collaborator of the Centre for Research & Conservation of Archaeological Textiles.

CECILIE BRNS received her PhD in Classical Archaeology in 2015 from The National Museum of Denmark, Department of Ancient Cultures of Denmark and the Mediterranean and The Danish National Research Foundations Centre for Textile Research (CTR) at the University of Copenhagen. Her monograph, entitled Gods and Garments: Textiles in Greek sanctuaries in the 7th to the 1st centuries BC, is published by Oxbow Books (2016). She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, and Director of the research project Transmission and Transformation. Ancient polychromy in an architectural context, funded by the Carlsberg Foundation. Her research currently focuses on ancient textiles and polychromy.

DEBORAH (DEBI) CASSUTO earned her MA from Bar Ilan University where she is presently a PhD candidate in Archaeology. Her thesis on The Social Context of Weaving in the Land of Israel: Investigating the Contexts of Iron Age II Loom Weights focused on interpreting loom weights in situ led to her present research on the organization of textile production in the Iron Age southern Levant. She has been a staff member at the Tell e-f/Gath Archaeological Project since 2005 and at the Tel Burna Excavation Project since its commencement in 2010. Her publications cover gender and household weaving, identification of textile production in archaeology, reports on textile implements from various excavations in Israel, and settlement patterns in Judean Shephelah of the Bronze and Iron Ages. She an associate fellow at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem where she was the Ernest S. Frerichs/Program Coordinator Fellow from 20122015.

LIZA CLELAND, University of Edinburgh, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, is the author of the monograph