Dressing Up for the Gods: Ceremonial Garments in Hittite Cultic Festivals according to the Philological and Archaeological Evidence
Through the combined study of Hittite cuneiform texts and the iconography of Hittite relief vases (Anatolia of the second half of the second millennium BCE), this paper addresses the ceremonial garments of key participants in cultic ceremonies, namely the royal couple, priests and priestesses, as we...
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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Brill
[2020]
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| Στο/Στη: |
Journal of ancient Near Eastern religions
Έτος: 2020, Τόμος: 20, Τεύχος: 1, Σελίδες: 48-86 |
| Τυποποιημένες (ακολουθίες) λέξεων-κλειδιών: | B
Χετταίοι
/ Θρησκευτική γιορτή (μοτίβο)
/ Zeremonialkleidung
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| Σημειογραφίες IxTheo: | AD Κοινωνιολογία της θρησκείας, Πολιτική της θρησκείας AG Θρησκευτική ζωή, Υλική θρησκεία BC Θρησκείες της Αρχαίας Ανατολής |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
Θρησκεία
B festival texts B Iconography B Cult B relief vases B Hittite |
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Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |
| Σύνοψη: | Through the combined study of Hittite cuneiform texts and the iconography of Hittite relief vases (Anatolia of the second half of the second millennium BCE), this paper addresses the ceremonial garments of key participants in cultic ceremonies, namely the royal couple, priests and priestesses, as well as festival entertainers. The paper also discusses a particular gesture which is frequently mentioned in Hittite religious texts: the act consisting of seizing someone else’s šeknu-garment. We argue that such a gesture might be related to the purity rules regarding the Great King’s body. Throughout this paper, several correspondences between the iconography and the textual evidence are also suggested. |
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| ISSN: | 1569-2124 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Journal of ancient Near Eastern religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15692124-12341312 |