What shall I say of clothes?: theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of dress in Antiquity

Contents

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Getting dressed. Gods among men : fashioning the divine image in Assyria / Kiersten Neumann ; Early Iron Age adornment with southern Levantine mortuary contexts : an argument for existential significance in understanding material culture / Josephine A. Verduci -- Being dressed. Fascinating Fascina : apotropaic magic and how to wear a penis / Alissa M. Whitmore ; Color-coded : the relationship between color, iconography, and theory in Hellenistic and Roman gemstones / Eric Beckman ; Surface tensions on Etruscan and Greek gold jewelry / Alexis Q. Castor ; Costly choices : signaling theory and dress in period IVb Hasanlu, Iran / Megan Cifarelli -- Dress and identity. Neolithic blue beads in northwest Turkey : the social significance of Skeuomorphism / Aysȩ Bursalt, Rana Oz̈bal, Emmal Baysal, Hadi Oz̈bal, Baris ̧Yagc̆t ; Fabrics of inclusion : deep wearing and the potentials of materiality on the Apadana reliefs Neville McFerrin ; Theorizing religious dress / Laura Gawlinski ; The costumes of late antique honorific monuments : conformity and divergence within the public and political sphere / Elizabeth Wueste ; Western men, Eastern women? dress and cultural identity in Roman Palmyra / Maura K. Heyn.