Objects in Context, Objects in Use: Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity (Late Antique Archaeology)

755 Pages·2008·11.22 MB·English

by  Luke Lavan

OBJECTS IN CONTEXT
OBJECTS IN USE
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LATE ANTIQUE
ARCHAEOLOGY
Editorial Board
SERIES EDITOR
LUKE LAVAN
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Albrecht Berger
Will Bowden
Kim Bowes
Averil Cameron
Beatrice Caseau
Alexandra Chavarrìa
James Crow
Simon Ellis
Sauro Gelichi
Lale Özgenel
Jean-Pierre Sodini
Bryan Ward-Perkins
Enrico Zanini
VOLUME 5 – 2007
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OBJECTS IN CONTEXT
OBJECTS IN USE
Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity
EDITED BY
LUKE LAVAN
ELLEN SWIFT
and
TOON PUTZEYS
WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF
ADAM GUTTERIDGE
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2007
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Cover illustration: Interior visualisation of the Alacami (Richard Bayliss).
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CONTENTS
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
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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
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The Shops of Scythopolis in Context ........................................ 439
Elias Khamis
An Unusual Structure on the Lycian Acropolis at Xanthos ..... 473
Anne-Marie Manière Lévêque
Dress
Defi ning 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
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Interpreting Finds in Context: Nicopolis and Dichin
Revisited .................................................................................. 685
Andrew Poulter
Grappling with the Granary: Context issues at Dichin ............ 707
Pam Grinter
Index ........................................................................................... 713
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The papers presented in the volume are derived from a meeting of
Late Antique Archaeology held in Oxford in May 2004, entitled Objects in
Context, Objects in Use: the Archaeology of Everyday Life, organised by Luke
Lavan and Bryan Ward-Perkins. We would like to thank all contributors
to both this volume and the conference, as well as all those who helped
organise and subsidise both events. The Craven Fund Committee, the
Oxford Byzantine Studies Committee and the British Academy provided
generous grants towards the cost of the meeting. Finally, our thanks go
to Julian Deahl for agreeing to publish these papers and to him, Marcella
Mulder and others at Brill for their work on this manuscript.
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