The gods of small things
By: edited by Amy C. Smith and Marianne E. Bergeron
Series: Pallas -- 86 / 2011; Pallas (Toulouse, France) -- 86.
Publisher: Presses universitaires du Mirail
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Toulouse
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9782810701810
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Miniature objects; Congresses; Antiquities
Notes: Papers from a conference held September 2009, University of Reading.

"Revue publiée avec le concours du Centre National du Livre."

Includes bibliographical references.

In English with foreword in French and contributor biographies in French and English.
Table of contents: title: Avant-propos / -- Christian Rico -- Introduction / -- Amy C. Smith; title: The uses of small things and the semiotics of Greek miniature objects  -- Oliver Pilz; title: Bodily skill and the aesthetics of miniaturisation  -- Sheila Kohring; title: From miniature objects to giant ones :; title: the process of defunctionalisation in sanctuaries and graves in Iron Age Greece  -- Jean-Marc Luce; title: Feasting and offering to the Gods in early Greek sanctuaries :; title: monumentalisation and miniaturisation in pottery  -- Stefanos Gimatzidis; title: The deposition of miniature weaponry in Iron Age Lincolnshire  -- Julia Farley; title: Size matters :; title: reconsidering Horus on the crocodiles in miniature  -- Jane Draycott; title: Gods on small things :; title: Egyptian iconography on late antique magical gems and the Greek and Demotic magical papyri  -- Nick West; title: Death, gender, and sea shells in Carthage  -- Marianne E. Bergeron; title: Women's work :; title: the dedication of loom weights in the sanctuaries of southern Italy  -- Alexandra Sofroniew; title: The lead statuettes and amulets of Heracleion-Thonis  -- Sanda S. Heinz; title: Between religion and consumption :; title: culinary and drinking equipment in Venetic ritual practice (c. 725 BCE-BC 25)  -- Elisa Perego; title: Travel tokens to the Korykian Cave near Delphi :; title: perspectives from material and human mobility  -- Katerina Volioti; title: The mundus muliebris within Lucanian society :; title: tales of women and social life from sanctuaries and necropoleis  -- Chiara Albanesi & Ilaria Battiloro; title: Crossing boundaries :; title: the inscribed votives of Southeast Italy -- Kathryn Lomas.