Philip Kiernan

Roman Cult Images

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A biography of how cult images functioned in Roman temples. It explores their creation, use, and eventual destruction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 903g
• ISBN-13: 9781108487344
• ISBN-10: 1108487343
• Artikelnr.: 59369168

Autorenporträt

Philip Kiernan is Associate Professor of Art History at Kennesaw State University, Georgia. He is the author of Miniature Votive Offerings (2009) and has also published numerous articles on Roman art, artefacts, numismatics, and religion. His archaeological excavations have included a Hellenistic-Roman market building at Alexandria Troas, a Bronze-Iron Age tumulus at Haßloch, and most recently a Romano-Celtic temple at Wareswald.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The birth of cult images: early Rome and the Iron Age
2. The birth of cult images: continuity and innovation in the Imperial Period
3. Idols at home
4. Idols in action
5. The end of idols.