Roman Cult Images : The Lives and Worship of Idols from the Iron Age to Late Antiquity
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1108487343
ISBN-13
9781108487344
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 11th, 2020
Print length
376 Pages
Weight
94 grams
Dimensions
18.60 x 25.90 x 2.70 cms
Ksh 24,650.00
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This book explores how Roman cult images were created, used, and eventually destroyed, from the Iron Age to Late Antiquity. Useful to both undergraduates and faculty readers studying ancient art, Roman archaeology, ancient religion, the European Iron Age, and Late Antiquity.
In this book, Philip Kiernan explores how cult images functioned in Roman temples from the Iron Age to Late Antiquity in the Roman west. He demonstrates how and why a temple''s idols, were more important to ritual than other images such as votive offerings and decorative sculpture. These idols were seen by many to be divine and possessed of agency. They were, thus, the primary focus of worship. Aided by cross-cultural comparative material, Kiernan''s study brings a biographical approach to explore the ''lives'' of idols and cult images - how they were created, housed in temples, used and worshipped, and eventually destroyed or buried. He also shows how the status of cult images could change, how new idols and other cult images were being continuously created, and how, in each phase of their lives, we find evidence for the significant power of idols.
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