Icon, cult, and context : sacred spaces and objects in the classical world : an edited volume featuring papers written by former students and colleagues of Susan B. Downey on the occasion of her retirement /

"This festschrift honors UCLA professor emerita Susan Downey and her meticulous scholarship on religious architecture and imagery in the Roman/Hellenistic world. The iconography of gods and goddesses, the analysis of sacred imagery in the context of ancient cult practices, and the design and de...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Downey, Susan B., 1938- (honouree.), Heyn, Maura K. (Editor ), Steinsapir, Ann Irvine (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Los Angeles : UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, [2016]
Colección:Monograph (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA) ; 82.
Temas:
Sacred space > Rome.
Religious articles > Rome.
Art and religion > Rome.
Cults > Rome.
Lieux sacrés > Rome.
Objets religieux > Rome.
Art et religion > Rome.
Cultes > Rome.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
Art and religion
Cults
Religious articles
Sacred space
Antike
Götter
Ikonographie
Kultstätte
Religiöse Kunst
Rome (Empire)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • From Heracles to Zeus Megistos : Susan Downey's academic contributions / Maura K. Heyn and Ann Irvine Steinsapir
  • Menerva on the couch : a votive figurine from Cerveteri of unusual iconography / Helen (Ili) Nagy
  • A new interpretation of the Mounted Hunters in the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos / Lucinda Dirven
  • Revisiting the "Temple of Bel" at Dura-Europos : a note on the fragmentary fresco from the Naos / Ted Kaizer
  • Ariadne transformed in Pompeii's House of Fabius Rufus / Lillian B. Joyce
  • The importance of being Venus / Eve D'Ambra
  • A portrait of a bearded man flanked by Isis and Serapis / Mary Louise Hart
  • A Deuteronomic theme and second sophistic rhetoric in the Dura-Europos Synagogue paintings / May Oppenheim Talbot
  • The religious iconography of Roman cameo glass / Karol B. Wight
  • Pharaohs putting some skene in the game : the Hellenistic sculptural program of the Sarapieion at Saqqara and the Ptolemaic Crown / Shanna Kennedy-Quigley
  • The Sanctuary of Artemis Leukophryene as an expression of conflicted civic Identity / Amanda Herring
  • Recent discoveries concerning religious life in Europos-Dura / Pierre Leriche.

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