Archaeologies of cult
Subtitle: essays on ritual and cult in Crete in honor of Geraldine C. Gesell
By: edited by Anna Lucia D'Agata and Aleydis Van de Moortel.
Contributors: D'Agata, Anna Lucia.; Van de Moortel, Aleydis.; Gesell, Geraldine Cornelia.
Series: Hesperia supplement -- 37
Publisher: American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780876615423
Subjects: Bronze age -- Greece -- Crete; Iron age -- Greece -- Crete; Rites and ceremonies -- Greece -- Crete -- History; Cults -- Greece -- Crete -- History; Historic buildings -- Greece -- Crete -- History; Material culture -- Greece -- Crete -- History; Landscapes -- Greece -- Crete -- History; Crete (Greece) -- Antiquities; Crete (Greece) -- Religious life and customs; Crete (Greece) -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-310) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: How many archaeologies of cult? On ritual and cult in Crete in the Bronze and early Iron Ages / Anna Lucia D'Agata; title: Gods in the house? Religious rituals in the settlements of south central Crete during the prepalatial and protopalatial periods / Joanne M.A. Murphy; title: Structured deposition as ritual action in the middle and late Bronze Age palace at Knossos / Eleni Hatzaki; title: Special, ritual, or cultic : a case study from Malia / Pascal Darcque and Aleydis Van de Moortel; title: Tree tugging and Omphalos hugging on Minoan gold rings / John G. Younger; title: "Why all this about oak or stone?" : trees and boulders in Minoan religion / Lucy Goodison; title: Harvest rites and corn dollies in the Bronze Age Aegean / Anaya Sarpaki; title: Cult activity at Malia in the protopalatial period : a review of the archaeological evidence / Jean-Claude Poursat; title: Does the widespread cult activity at Palaikastro call for a special explanation? / T.F. Cunningham and L.H. Sackett; title: Rethinking the Tomb of the Double Axes at Isopata, Knossos / Lucia Alberti; title: Domestic shrines in LM IIIA2-LM IIIC Crete : fact or fiction? / Birgitta Hallager; title: The late Minoan IIIC shrine at Halasmenos : its implications for sociopolitical developments / Metaxia Tsipopoulou; title: Ritual activity at Karphi : a reappraisal / Leslie Preston Day; title: From Kavousi Vronda to Dreros : architecture and display in Cretan cult buildings, 1200-700 B.C. / Nancy L. Klein and Kevin T. Glowacki; title: Additions to the corpus of early Cretan figurines : was there a nude goddess in early Minoan Crete? / Philip P. Betancourt; title: Configuring the individual : bodies of figurines in Minoan Crete / Christine Morris; title: A neopalatial shrine model from the Minoan Peak sanctuary at Gournos Krousonas / George Rethemiotakis; title: Tubular stands in neopalatial Crete / Gerald Cadogan; title: Does size matter? Miniature pottery vessels in Minoan Peak sanctuaries : the case of Ayios Yeoryios sto Vouno on Kythera / Iphiyenia Tournavitou; title: The survival of the goddess with upraised arms : early Iron Age representations and contexts / Mieke Prent; title: Environmental change and Minoan sacred landscapes / Jennifer Moody; title: The topography of Minoan Peak sanctuaries revisited / Alan Peatfield; title: Juktas and Kophinas : two ritual landscapes out of the ordinary / Steven Soetens; title: Investigating Minoan sacred landscapes / Lucia Nixon; title: The chimera of continuity : what would "continuity of cult" actually demonstrate? / James Whitley.