Ritual architecture, iconography and practice in the late Cypriot bronze age /

Webb, Jennifer M.

Ritual architecture, iconography and practice in the late Cypriot bronze age / Jennifer M. Webb. - Jonsered : Aaströms, 1999. - xii, 369 p. : ill. - Studies in Mediterranean archaeology and literature. Pocket-book, 75 0283-8494 ; . - Studies in Mediterranean archaeology and literature. Pocket-book 75. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309) and index.

I. Theory and Context -- Religion, Ritual and Ideology -- Cyprus in the Late Bronze Age -- Terminology -- II. Cult Sites -- The Problem of Recognition -- A Polythetic Approach -- The Data Base. A Spectrum of Reliability -- A. Reliably Identified Sites -- B. Less Reliably Identified Sites -- C. Misidentified Sites -- III. Architecture and Artefacts -- Structure and Function -- Interior Furnishings -- The Ceramic Assemblage -- Terracottas -- Bronzes -- Other Portable Finds -- Faunal Remains -- IV. Images of the Supernatural -- The Evidence of Vase Painting -- The Evidence of Glyptic -- V. Ideology, Cult and Politics -- The Structural Evidence -- Constructing a Typological Framework -- Artefacts and Ideology -- The Archaic State Model.

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Excavations (Archaeology)--Cyprus
Bronze age--Cyprus
Architecture, Ancient--Cyprus.
Cults--Cyprus.
Ceramics--Cyprus.
Terra-cotta sculpture, Cypriot.
Bronzes--Cyprus.
Glyptics.


Cyprus--Antiquities


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NA230 / .W43 1999