Sacred Space And Sacred Function In Ancient Thebes
DOWNLOAD
Download Sacred Space And Sacred Function In Ancient Thebes PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Sacred Space And Sacred Function In Ancient Thebes book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Sacred Space And Sacred Function In Ancient Thebes
DOWNLOAD
Author : Betsy M. Bryan
language : en
Publisher: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Release Date : 2007-12-31
Sacred Space And Sacred Function In Ancient Thebes written by Betsy M. Bryan and has been published by Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-31 with History categories.
This volume presents a series of papers delivered at a two-day session of the Theban Workshop held at the British Museum in September 2003. Due to its political and religious prominence throughout much of pharaonic history, the region of ancient Thebes offers scholars a wealth of monuments whose physical remains and extant iconography may be combined with textual sources and archaeological finds in ways that elucidate the function of sacred space as initially conceived, and which also reveal adaptations to human need or shifts in cultural perception. The contributions herein address issues such as the architectural framing of religious ceremony, the implicit performative responses of officiants, the diachronic study of specific rites, the adaptation of sacred space to different uses through physical, representational, or textual alteration, and the development of ritual landscapes in ancient Thebes.
Sacred Space And Sacred Function In Ancient Thebes
DOWNLOAD
Author : Peter Dorman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Sacred Space And Sacred Function In Ancient Thebes written by Peter Dorman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
Placing The Gods
DOWNLOAD
Author : Susan E. Alcock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Placing The Gods written by Susan E. Alcock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
Cult activity played an extremely important role in ancient Greece--to the point, historians believe, that the placing of cult centers played a major part in establishing the whole concept of the city-state in archaic Greece. The essays in this collection critically examine the social and political importance of sanctuary placement, extending the analysis back to Mycenean Greece and on to Greece under Roman occupation. Revealing the complexity of relations between religion and politics in ancient Greece, these essays show how important tradition, gender relations, and cult identity were in creating and maintaining the religious mapping of the ancient Greek countryside.
Architecture Of The Sacred
DOWNLOAD
Author : Bonna D. Wescoat
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-02-27
Architecture Of The Sacred written by Bonna D. Wescoat and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-27 with Architecture categories.
This book investigates the role of architecture in the construction of sacred experience in ancient Greek, Roman, Jewish, Christian and Byzantine cultures.
Sacred Spaces
DOWNLOAD
Author : G. J. Wightman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Sacred Spaces written by G. J. Wightman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Ancient religious architecture categories.
A great deal has been written about religious architecture in ancient cultures, but the great bulk of the literature has tended to be culture-specific. Wightman's volume offers for the first time a comprehensive synopsis of the rich manifestations of religious architecture throughout the ancient world. In addition, the book provides a conceptual framework within which cross-cultural comparisons of religious architecture may usefully take place, and tackles some fundamental issues in relation to the definition and characterisation of sacred space in ancient contexts. The last fifteen years have witnessed the focusing of a great deal of scholarly attention on the archaeology of religions, with the result that today researchers are able to make use of a broad armoury of theoretical and methodological approaches. Yet theory must at all times be tested against material evidence, and here Wightman's volume is timely in laying out empirical data pertaining to all the major traditions of religious architecture in antiquity. The book is comprised of twenty-one chapters divided into five parts. Beginning around twelve thousand years ago at the transition of the Holocene, the book embarks on an explorative journey around the ancient globe, ending between the 3rd and 5th centuries AD. The first four parts of the book deal with broad regions of the ancient world: Western; Pre-Classical Europe and the Mediterranean; the Graeco-Roman world; South and East Asia; and the Americas. Part Five, covering about a quarter of the book, has three chapters, each dealing with aspects of sacred space (Identity and Meaning, Language of Sacred Space, Text and Image). The text is complemented by approximately 400 line drawings in colour - many of which are Wightman's reconstructions of ancient temples and sanctuaries - and 200 photographic plates, most in colour. The volume is rounded off by a comprehensive bibliography with essential literature highlighted, benefiting both the general reader and specialists. Wightman's book will become a work of reference to those interested in gaining or furthering an understanding of architecture, archaeology and religion in the ancient world.
Tel Dan In Its Northern Cultic Context
DOWNLOAD
Author : Andrew R. Davis
language : en
Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit
Release Date : 2013-11-04
Tel Dan In Its Northern Cultic Context written by Andrew R. Davis and has been published by Society of Biblical Lit this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-04 with Religion categories.
This work presents in detail a description of archaeological data from the Iron II temple complex at Tel Dan in northern Israel. Davis analyzes the archaeological remains from the ninth and eighth centuries, paying close attention to how the temple functioned as sacred space. Correlating the archaeological data with biblical depictions of worship, especially the “textual strata” of 1 Kings 18 and the book of Amos, Davis argues that the temple was the site of “official” and family religion and that worship at the temple became increasingly centralized. Tel Dan's role in helping reconstruct ancient Israelite religion, especially distinctive religious traditions of the northern kingdom, is also considered.
Sacred Landscapes In Antiquity
DOWNLOAD
Author : Ralph Haussler
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Release Date : 2020-07-31
Sacred Landscapes In Antiquity written by Ralph Haussler and has been published by Oxbow Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-31 with Social Science categories.
From generation to generation, people experience their landscapes differently. Humans depend on their natural environment: it shapes their behavior while it is often felt that deities responsible for both natural benefits and natural calamities (such as droughts, famines, floods and landslides) need to be appeased. We presume that, in many societies, lakes, rivers, rocks, mountains, caves and groves were considered sacred. Individual sites and entire landscapes are often associated with divine actions, mythical heroes and etiological myths. Throughout human history, people have also felt the need to monumentalize their sacred landscape. But this is where the similarities end as different societies had very different understandings, believes and practices. The aim of this new thematic appraisal is to scrutinize carefully our evidence and rethink our methodologies in a multi-disciplinary approach. More than 30 papers investigate diverse sacred landscapes from the Iberian peninsula and Britain in the west to China in the east. They discuss how to interpret the intricate web of ciphers and symbols in the landscape and how people might have experienced it. We see the role of performance, ritual, orality, textuality and memory in people’s sacred landscapes. A diachronic view allows us to study how landscapes were ‘rewritten’, adapted and redefined in the course of time to suit new cultural, political and religious understandings, not to mention the impact of urbanism on people’s understandings. A key question is how was the landscape manipulated, transformed and monumentalized – especially the colossal investments in monumental architecture we see in certain socio-historic contexts or the creation of an alternative humanmade, seemingly ‘non-natural’ landscape, with perfectly astronomically aligned buildings that define a cosmological order? Sacred Landscapes therefore aims to analyze the complex links between landscape, ‘religiosity’ and society, developing a dialectic framework that explores sacred landscapes across the ancient world in a dynamic, holistic, contextual and historical perspective.
The Cosmos In Ancient Greek Religious Experience
DOWNLOAD
Author : Efrosyni Boutsikas
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-29
The Cosmos In Ancient Greek Religious Experience written by Efrosyni Boutsikas and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-29 with History categories.
Reconstructs ancient rituals in their day/night/season combining them with relevant mythology and astronomical observations to understand the ritual's cosmological links.
The Modern Neighbors Of Tutankhamun
DOWNLOAD
Author : Kees Van der Spek
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011
The Modern Neighbors Of Tutankhamun written by Kees Van der Spek and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Social Science categories.
Examines the lives of people of al-Qurna prior to the demolition of their village in order to promote tourism in the area of Thebes and Luxor.
Scribbling Through History
DOWNLOAD
Author : Chloé Ragazzoli
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-05-31
Scribbling Through History written by Chloé Ragazzoli and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-31 with Art categories.
For most people the mention of graffiti conjures up notions of subversion, defacement, and underground culture. Yet, the term was coined by classical archaeologists excavating Pompeii in the 19th century and has been embraced by modern street culture: graffiti have been left on natural sites and public monuments for tens of thousands of years. They mark a position in time, a relation to space, and a territorial claim. They are also material displays of individual identity and social interaction. As an effective, socially accepted medium of self-definition, ancient graffiti may be compared to the modern use of social networks. This book shows that graffiti, a very ancient practice long hidden behind modern disapproval and street culture, have been integral to literacy and self-expression throughout history. Graffiti bear witness to social events and religious practices that are difficult to track in normative and official discourses. This book addresses graffiti practices, in cultures ranging from ancient China and Egypt through early modern Europe to modern Turkey, in illustrated short essays by specialists. It proposes a holistic approach to graffiti as a cultural practice that plays a key role in crucial aspects of human experience and how they can be understood.