Objects in Context, Objects in Use

BCE to c 500 CE, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology

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Editor:

Luke Lavan

Ellen Swift

Toon Putzeys

Category:

History - Medieval History

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Volume:

Series:

Late Antique Archaeology

ISSN:

1570-6893

ISBN13:

9789004165502

Publication Year:

2008

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Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xii, 743 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Luke Lavan is Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Kent, Canterbury. His doctorate (2001) considered Provincial Capitals in Late Antiquity. He has edited conference volumes on late antique urbanism, the countryside and historical methodology, and is series editor of Late Antique Archaeology.

Ellen Swift is Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Kent, Canterbury. She has particular interests in artefact studies, late Roman dress, and Roman art. Her forthcoming book on Roman decoration is to be published by Ashgate.

Toon Putzeys works for the Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project of the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven. His doctorate (2006) considered Contextual Analysis at Sagalassos, a classical city with important late antique levels in the mountains of South-West Turkey.

Readership

All those interested in the archaeology and history of the Late Roman and Early Medieval periods in Europe and the Mediterranean, as well as architectural historians focusing on domesticity.

Acknowledgements .. ix

Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity: Sources, Approaches, and Field Methods .. 1
Luke Lavan, Ellen Swift and Toon Putzeys

Bibliographic Essays
Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity: An Introduction to the Bibliography .. 45
Luke Lavan and Toon Putzeys
Domestic Space in Late Antiquity .. 49
Toon Putzeys
Productive Space in Late Antiquity .. 63
Toon Putzeys
Commercial Space in Late Antiquity .. 81
Toon Putzeys and Luke Lavan
Political Space in Late Antiquity .. 111
Luke Lavan
Social Space in Late Antiquity .. 129
Luke Lavan
Religious Space in Late Antiquity .. 159
Luke Lavan
Domestic Space
Contextual Analysis at Sagalassos .. 205
Toon Putzeys, Marc Waelkens, Jeroen Poblome, Wim van Neer, Bea de Cupere, Thijs van Thuyne and Nathalie Kellens
Households at Pella, Jordan: Domestic Destruction Deposits of the Mid-8th c. .. 239
Alan Walmsley
Keeping the Demons out of the House: the Archaeology of Apotropaic Strategy and Practice in Late Antique Butrint and Antigoneia .. 273
John Mitchell

Vessels in Context
The Archaeology of Late Antique Dining Habits in the Eastern Mediterranean: A Preliminary Study of the Evidence .. 313
Joanita Vroom
The Modena Well-hoards: Rural Domestic Artefact Assemblages in Late Antiquity .. 363
Sauro Gelichi
Decorated Vessels: The Function of Decoration in Late Antiquity .. 385
Ellen Swift

Shops and Workshops
Shopping, Eating and Drinking at Dura Europos: Reconstructing Contexts .. 413
Jennifer Baird
The Shops of Scythopolis in Context .. 439
Elias Khamis
An Unusual Structure on the Lycian Acropolis at Xanthos .. 473
Anne-Marie Manière Lévêque

Dress
Defining Personal Space: Dress and Accessories in Late Antiquity .. 497
Maria Parani
The Impossible Art of Dressing to Please: Jerome and the Rhetoric of Dress .. 531
Mary Harlow

Religious Space
Objects in Churches: The Testimony of Inventories .. 551
Béatrice Caseau
Furniture, Fixtures, and Fittings in Churches: Archaeological Evidence from Palestine (4th–8th c.) and the Role of the Diakonikon .. 581
Vincent Michel
Storing in the Church: Artefacts in Room I of the Petra Church .. 607
Zbigniew Fiema
Ordinary Objects in Christian Healing Sanctuaries .. 625
Béatrice Caseau

Military Space
Soldiers and Spaces: Daily Life in Late Roman Forts .. 657
Andrew Gardner
Interpreting Finds in Context: Nicopolis and Dichin Revisited .. 685
Andrew Poulter
Grappling with the Granary: Context issues at Dichin .. 707
Pam Grinter

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The Archaeology of Late Antique 'Paganism'

Edited by Luke Lavan and Michael Mulryan

This collection of papers, arising from the conference series Late Antique Archaeology, examines the archaeology of 'paganism' in late antiquity. Papers explore the end of the temples, the nature of ritual deposits, the fate of religious statues and the iconography in material culutre. These are ...

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9789004180000

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Religious Diversity in Late Antiquity

Edited by David M. Gwynn and Susanne Bangert. Conceived and Co-ordinated by Luke Lavan. With the Assistance of Carlos Machado and Michael Mulryan

This volume in the ongoing Late Antique Archaeology series draws on material and textual evidence to explore the diverse religious world of Late Antiquity. Subjects include Jews and Samaritans, orthodoxy and heresy, pilgrimage, stylites, magic, the sacred and the secular.

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9789004165496

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Technology in Transition A.D. 300-650

Edited by Luke Lavan, Enrico Zanini and Alexander Sarantis

This collection of papers, arising from the conference series Late Antique Archaeology, examines technology in late antiquity. Papers explore agriculture, production, engineering and building technologies, and include a bibliographic essay.

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3/2

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9789004162280

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Housing in Late Antiquity - Volume 3.2

Edited by Luke Lavan, Lale Özgenel and Alexander Sarantis

This collection of papers, arising from the conference series Late Antique Archaeology, examines the housing in the late antique period, through thematic and regional syntheses, complemented by cases studies and two bibliographic essays.

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3/1

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9789004144149

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Social and Political Life in Late Antiquity - Volume 3.1

Edited by William Bowden, Adam Gutteridge and Carlos Machado

This collection of papers, arising from the conference series Late Antique Archaeology, examines the social and political structures of the late antique period and the ways in which they are manifested in the archaeological and textual record.

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9789004136076

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Recent Research on the Late Antique Countryside

Edited by William Bowden, Luke Lavan and Carlos Machado

This volume explores the late antique countryside, looking at social and political life, landscape change, villas, monasteries, pilgrimage sites and the fate of rural temples. A section is devoted to recent survey work in Turkey and a comprehensive bibliographic essay frames the work. With ...

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Theory and Practice in Late Antique Archaeology

Edited by Luke Lavan and William Bowden

This volume explores the theoretical frameworks, methodology and field practice suited to late antique archaeology. It considers broad themes such as social life, the economy, topography and long-term change, but also engages fully with the specific historical issues and evidential problems of ...