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.

• Superior document: Late antique archaeology, v. 5
• TeilnehmendeR: Lavan, Luke.; Swift, Ellen.; Putzeys, Toon.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Late antique archaeology ; v. 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (754 p.)
• Notes: "The papers ... are derived from a meeting of Late antique archaeology held in Oxford in May 2004"--P. [ix].
• Other title: Preliminary Materials /; Material Spatiality In Late Antiquity: Sources, Approaches And Field Methods /; Material Spatiality In Late Antiquity: An Introduction To The Bibliography /; Domestic Space In Late Antiquity /; Productive Space In Late Antiquity /; Commercial Space In Late Antiquity /; Political Space In Late Antiquity /; Social Space In Late Antiquity /; Religious Space In Late Antiquity /; Contextual Analysis At Sagalassos /; Households At Pella, Jordan: Domestic Destruction Deposits Of The Mid-8th C. /; Keeping The Demons Out Of The House: The Archaeology Of Apotropaic Strategy And Practice In Late Antique Butrint And Antigoneia /; The Archaeology Of Late Antique Dining Habits In The Eastern Mediterranean: A Preliminary Study Of The Evidence /; The Modena Well-Hoards: Rural Domestic Artefact Assemblages In Late Antiquity /; Decorated Vessels: The Function Of Decoration In Late Antiquity /; Shopping, Eating, And Drinking At Dura-Europos: Reconstructing Contexts /; The Shops Of Scythopolis In Context /; An Unusual Structure On The Lycian Acropolis At Xanthos /; Defining Personal Space: Dress And Accessories In Late Antiquity /; The Impossible Art Of Dressing To Please: Jerome And The Rhetoric Of Dress /; Objects In Churches: The Testimony Of Inventories /; Furniture, Fixtures, And Fittings In Churches: Archaeological Evidence From Palestine (4th–8th C.) And The Role Of The Diakonikon /; Storing In The Church: Artefacts In Room I Of The Petra Church /; Ordinary Objects In Christian Healing Sanctuaries /; Soldiers And Spaces: Daily Life In Late Roman Forts /; Interpreting Finds In Context: Nicopolis And Dichin Revisited /; Grappling With The Granary: Context Issues At Dichin /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1283060701; 9786613060709; 904743305X
• ISSN: 1570-6893
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Luke Lavan, Ellen Swift and Toon Putzeys ; with the assistance of Adam Gutteridge.

This book promotes the study of material spatiality in late antiquity: not just the study of buildings, but of the people, dress and objects used within them, drawing on all available source material. It seeks to explore the material world as it was lived in late antiquity, in an interpretative inquiry, rather than simply describing the evidence that has survived until today. The volume presents a series of comprehensive bibliographic essays which provide an overview of relevant literature, along with discussions of the nature of the sources, of relevant approaches and field methods. The main section of the book explores domestic space, vessels in context, dress, shops and workshops, religious space, and military space. Synthetic papers drawing on a wide range of archaeological, art-historical and textual sources are complemented by case-studies of context-rich late antique sites in the East Mediterranean and elsewhere, including Pella, Dura-Europos, Scythopolis, and Sagalassos.