Archaeologies of cult : essays on ritual and cult in Crete in honor of Geraldine C. Gesell / ed. by Anna Lucia D'Agata and Aleydis Van de Moortel

• Pubblicazione: Princeton, N.J. : American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: XXIX, 321 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
• Soggetto topico: Età del Bronzo - Grecia - Creta; Età del Ferro - Grecia - Creta; Riti - Grecia - Creta - Storia; Culti - Grecia - Creta - Storia; Paesaggio - Grecia - Creta - Storia
• Soggetto geografico: Creta (Grecia) Antichità; Creta (Grecia) Religione
• Altri autori: D'Agata, Anna Lucia Van de Moortel, Aleydis Gesell, Geraldine Cornelia
• Nota di bibliografia: Contiene bibliografia: pp. [289]-310
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: How many archaeologies of cult? On ritual and cult in Crete in the Bronze and early Iron Ages / Anna Lucia D'Agata -- Gods in the house? Religious rituals in the settlements of south central Crete during the prepalatial and protopalatial periods / Joanne M.A. Murphy -- Structured deposition as ritual action in the middle and late Bronze Age palace at Knossos / Eleni Hatzaki -- Special, ritual, or cultic : a case study from Malia / Pascal Darcque and Aleydis Van de Moortel -- Tree tugging and Omphalos hugging on Minoan gold rings / John G. Younger -- "Why all this about oak or stone?" : trees and boulders in Minoan religion / Lucy Goodison -- Harvest rites and corn dollies in the Bronze Age Aegean / Anaya Sarpaki -- Cult activity at Malia in the protopalatial period : a review of the archaeological evidence / Jean-Claude Poursat -- Does the widespread cult activity at Palaikastro call for a special explanation? / T.F. Cunningham and L.H. Sackett -- Rethinking the Tomb of the Double Axes at Isopata, Knossos / Lucia Alberti -- Domestic shrines in LM IIIA2-LM IIIC Crete : fact or fiction? / Birgitta Hallager -- The late Minoan IIIC shrine at Halasmenos : its implications for sociopolitical developments / Metaxia Tsipopoulou -- ; Ritual activity at Karphi : a reappraisal / Leslie Preston Day -- From Kavousi Vronda to Dreros : architecture and display in Cretan cult buildings, 1200-700 B.C. / Nancy L. Klein and Kevin T. Glowacki -- Additions to the corpus of early Cretan figurines : was there a nude goddess in early Minoan Crete? / Philip P. Betancourt -- Configuring the individual : bodies of figurines in Minoan Crete / Christine Morris -- A neopalatial shrine model from the Minoan Peak sanctuary at Gournos Krousonas / George Rethemiotakis -- Tubular stands in neopalatial Crete / Gerald Cadogan -- Does size matter? Miniature pottery vessels in Minoan Peak sanctuaries : the case of Ayios Yeoryios sto Vouno on Kythera / Iphiyenia Tournavitou -- The survival of the goddess with upraised arms : early Iron Age representations and contexts / Mieke Prent -- Environmental change and Minoan sacred landscapes / Jennifer Moody -- The topography of Minoan Peak sanctuaries revisited / Alan Peatfield -- Juktas and Kophinas : two ritual landscapes out of the ordinary / Steven Soetens -- Investigating Minoan sacred landscapes / Lucia Nixon -- The chimera of continuity : what would "continuity of cult" actually demonstrate? / James Whitley
• ISBN: 9780876615423
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 991001219399707536
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. del Salento
• Serie: Hesperia supplement, 1064-1173 ; 37