Francesca Mazzilli

Broschiertes Buch

Rural Cult Centres in the Hauran: Part of the broader network of the Near East (100 BC-AD 300)

Beschreibung

The first comprehensive multidisciplinary analysis of rural cult centres in the Hauran (southern Syria) from the pre-Roman to the Roman period (100 BC-AD 300). This volume re-evaluates the significance of contacts between the elite of the Hauran and other cultures of the Near East in shaping cult sites.

Autor

Francesca Mazzilli is a Roman pottery specialist at the Cambridge Archaeological Unit, University of Cambridge (since March 2015). She holds a PhD in Archaeology at the University of Durham for her thesis Beyond Religion: Cultural Exchange and Economy in Syria. Over the last ten years she has worked as an archaeologist in England, Italy and Jordan. Her main research interests are Roman religion, architecture, landscape, theory and pottery. She has presented papers covering these topics in various international conferences in Europe. Together with Dies Van Der Linde she is currently co-editing a book entitled Dialectics of Religion in the Roman World. She has been a member of the Theoretical Roman Archaeological Conference (TRAC) standing committee and of the Theoretical Roman Archaeological Journal (TRAJ) editorial team since March 2017.

Produktdetails

• Archaeopress Roman Archaeology
• Verlag: Archaeopress
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 207mm x 291mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9781784919542
• ISBN-10: 1784919543
• Artikelnr.: 53545101