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Title:
The object of dedication
Series
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Series:
World Archaeology
Volume
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Volume:
36 (1)
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Publication Type:
Journal
Editor
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Editor:
Peter A Rowley-Conwy
Issue Editor
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Issue Editor:
Robin Osborne
Publisher
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Publisher:
Routledge Journals
Year of Publication
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Year of Publication:
2004
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Is Portmanteau: 1
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Source:
BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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http://www.journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=0043-8243
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Created Date:
14 Oct 2005
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The object of dedication
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Special issue on votive offerings, dedications and other ritual deposits, including
Hoards, votives, offerings: the archaeology of the dedicated object
Robin Osborne
1 - 10
the paper makes the case for the importance of objects given to supernatural powers, whether they be described as votives, dedications, ritual deposits, ritual hoards, offerings or by some other term. It explores some archaeological reasons for their neglect, including the practice of publishing artefacts by type rather than by context, and argues that archaeologists should not assume that religious practices can be discussed only when there are texts available as guides. It summarizes the particular concerns of the papers which follow
Dedicating the town: urban foundation deposits in Roman Britain
Peter J Woodward
Ann Woodward
68 - 86
the processes of urban foundation and development are here explored by examining structured dedicatory deposits within Romano-British urban centres. Following the re-definition of a series of shaft deposits within the town of Dorchester (Durnovaria) as ritual, such repetitive deposits are considered within the context of the symbolism of Roman urban planning, and the dedication rites of the ancient world
Votive deposition, religion and the Anglo-Saxon furnished burial ritual
Sally Crawford
87 - 102
recent evaluation of Anglo-Saxon mortuary ritual has studied furnished burial almost solely in terms of conspicuous display, social organization and the relationship between the individual and the symbolic social messages of the goods with which they were buried. The paper argues that a rigid distinction between 'votive' and 'burial' deposition could be misleading, and that this distinction may be preventing archaeologists from seeing that the mortuary ritual should be recognized as an expression of a communal belief system, as well as carrying other important social messages