Vassos Karageorghis / Hartmut Matthäus / Sabine Rogge (eds), Cyprus: Religion and Society - from the Late Bronze Age to the End of the Archaic Period. Proceedings of an International Symposium on Cypriote Archaeology, Erlangen, 23 - 24 July 2004 (Möhnesee: Bibliopolis, 2005)
In July 2004 scholars from several European countries and from the United States as well met in Erlangen for an International conference on Cypriote archaeology. The conference's topic was "Cypriote Religion and Society", and the papers all settled within a period ranging from the Late Bronze Age to the end of the Archaic period -- undoubtedly a period of cultural glory for the island of Cyprus.
The papers published in this volume refer to many aspects of Cypriote archaeology: the influences from neighbouring countries in religious as well as social matters, the relations between Cyprus and Crete concerning cult activity, the significance of percussion instruments in cult and ritual, burial practices (with special regard to aristocratic burials), head shaping as an indicator of social conventions, vase-painting (Amathus style), scenes of everyday life (in coroplastic art, especially), peculiarities of Cypriote sculpture concerning structure and iconography, the connection between religion and copper production, loomweights as possible indicators for ethnic migration, cooking and storage vessels and their social significance, banquets as part of a Mediterranean koiné, stamp-seals and their various functions.
Content:
- Anna Lucia D'Agata, Cult activity on
- Hartmut Matthäus, ΛΑΜΠΡΟΣ ΗΛΙΟΥ ΚΥΚΛΟΣ. Phoenician deities and demons. A study in the transfer of iconography and ideology
- Kirsi Lorentz, Late Bronze Age burial practices: age as a form of social difference
- Anne Marie Carstens, To bury a ruler: the meaning of the horse in aristocratic burials
- Katja Walcher, Royal Tomb 5 of Tamassos: an analysis of its decoration with regard to religious or representative prototypes
- Stephanie Böhm, A flower-smelling man. About a pictorial motif of Cypro-Archaic vase-painting, its iconography and significance
- Reinhard Senff, Dress, habit and status symbols of Cypriote statuary from Archaic to Roman times
- Vassos Karageorghis, Some aspects of everyday life in Archaic Cyprus
- Vasiliki Kassianidou, Was copper production under divine protection in Late Bronze Age
- Lorenz Rahmstorf, Ethnicity and changes in weaving technology in
- Despo Pilides, Storage jars and cooking pots: implications and social significance
- Katerina Kolotourou, Music and cult: the significance of percussion and the Cypriote connection
- Andres T. Reyes, Seals as object and subject: using Cypriote stamp-seals
- Annette Rathje, Fabulous feasts
235 pages with numerous images
ISBN 3-933925-75-4
Bibliopolis
Price: 48 €