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

Imprint Princeton, N.J. : American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  939.1801 Ar22 2009    ---  Available
Description xxix, 321 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
Series Hesperia supplement, 1064-1173 ; 42
Hesperia (Princeton, N.J.). Supplement ; 42.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: How many archaeologies of cult? / Anna Lucia D'Agata -- Gods in the house? : religious rituals in the settlements of south central Crete / Joanne M.A. Murphy -- Structured deposition as ritual action at Knossos / Eleni Hatzaki -- Special, ritual, or cultic : a case study from Malia / Pascal Darcque, 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 / Jean-Claude Poursat -- Does the widespread cult activity at Palaikastro call for a special explanation? / T.F. Cunningham, L.H. Sackett -- Rethinking the Tomb of the Double Axes at Isopata, Knossos / Lucia Alberti -- Domestic shrines in late Minoan IIIA2-late Minoan IIIC Crete : fact or fiction? / Birgitta P. Hallager -- Goddesses for "gene"? : the late Minoan IIIC shrine at Halasmenos, Ierapetra / Metaxia Tsipopoulou -- Ritual activity at Karphi : a reappraisal / Leslie Preston Day -- From Kavousi Vronda to Dreros : architecture and display in Cretan cult buildings / Nancy L. Klein, 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 / 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.
Subject Crete (Greece) -- Antiquities.
Crete (Greece) -- Religious life and customs.
Crete (Greece) -- Social life and customs.
Archaeology and religion -- Greece -- Crete.
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.
Added Author D'Agata, Anna Lucia.
Van de Moortel, Aleydis.
Gesell, Geraldine Cornelia.
ISBN 9780876615423 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0876615426 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Standard No. AU@ 000044329328
NZ1 13221047
CDX 5989312
HEBIS 193932970
GEBAY 11675406

 
    
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