Objects in Context, Objects in Use: Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity

✍ Scribed by Luke Lavan, Ellen Swift, Toon Putzeys

Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 755
Series: Late Antique Archaeology 5
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book promotes the study of material spatiality in late antiquity: not just the study of buildings, but of the people, dress and objects used within them, drawing on all available source material.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity: Sources, Approaches, and Field Methods (Luke Lavan, Ellen Swift and Toon Putzeys)......Page 14
Bibliographic Essays......Page 56
Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity: An Introduction to the Bibliography (Luke Lavan and Toon Putzeys)......Page 58
Domestic Space in Late Antiquity (Toon Putzeys)......Page 62
Productive Space in Late Antiquity (Toon Putzeys)......Page 76
Commercial Space in Late Antiquity (Toon Putzeys and Luke Lavan)......Page 94
Political Space in Late Antiquity (Luke Lavan)......Page 124
Social Space in Late Antiquity (Luke Lavan)......Page 142
Religious Space in Late Antiquity (Luke Lavan)......Page 172
Domestic Space......Page 216
Contextual Analysis at Sagalassos (Toon Putzeys, Marc Waelkens, Jeroen Poblome, Wim van Neer, Bea de Cupere, Thijs van Thuyne and Nathalie Kellens)......Page 218
Households at Pella, Jordan: Domestic Destruction Deposits of the Mid-8th c (Alan Walmsley)......Page 252
Keeping the Demons out of the House: the Archaeology of A potropaic Strategy and Practice in Late Antique Butrint and Antigoneia (John Mitchell)......Page 286
Vessels in Context......Page 324
The Archaeology of Late Antique Dining Habits in the Eastern Mediterranean: A Preliminary Study of the Evidence (Joanita Vroom)......Page 326
The Modena Well-hoards: Rural Domestic Artefact Assemblages in Late Antiquity (Sauro Gelichi)......Page 376
Decorated Vessels: The Function of Decoration in Late Antiquity (Ellen Swift)......Page 398
Shops and Workshops......Page 424
Shopping, Eating and Drinking at Dura Europos: Reconstructing Contexts (Jennifer Baird)......Page 426
The Shops of Scythopolis in Context (Elias Khamis)......Page 452
An Unusual Structure on the Lycian Acropolis at Xanthos (Anne-Marie Manière Lévêque)......Page 486
Dress......Page 508
Defining Personal Space: Dress and Accessories in Late Antiquity (Maria Parani)......Page 510
The Impossible Art of Dressing to Please: Jerome and the Rhetoric of Dress (Mary Harlow)......Page 544
Religious Space......Page 562
Objects in Churches: The Testimony of Inventories (Béatrice Caseau)......Page 564
Furniture, Fixtures, and Fittings in Churches: Archaeological E vidence from Palestine (4th–8th c.) and the Role of the Diakonikon (Vincent Michel)......Page 594
Storing in the Church: Artefacts in Room I of the Petra Church (Zbigniew Fiema)......Page 620
Ordinary Objects in Christian Healing Sanctuaries (Béatrice Caseau)......Page 638
Military Space......Page 668
Soldiers and Spaces: Daily Life in Late Roman Forts (Andrew Gardner)......Page 670
Interpreting Finds in Context: Nicopolis and Dichin Revisited (Andrew Poulter)......Page 698
Grappling with the Granary: Context issues at Dichin (Pam Grinter)......Page 720
Index......Page 726

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