Building Ritual Agency: Foundations, Floors, Doors, and Walls
Abstract
Looks at the material evidence for ritual practices involved in the buildings of the ancient Mediterranean. Utilizing literary and archaeological evidence, it analyzes each component of construction from the preparations of a site and its foundation to floors, walls, doors, and roofs. Apotropaic materials are most vitally connected to buildings, but one also finds evidence of aggressive ritual devices seeking to do harm. Acts of ritual protection are also involved in the transformation of buildings -- to cleanse and purify spaces.
Repository Citation
Wilburn, Andrew T. "Building Ritual Agency: Foundations, Floors, Doors, and Walls." In Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic, edited by David Frankfurter, 556-602. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
Publisher
Brill
Publication Date
4-4-2019
Department
Classics
Additional Department
Archaeological Studies
Document Type
Book Chapter
DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004390751_021
Notes
Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World
Part 3: The Materials of Ancient Magic, Chapter 20
ISBN
9789004171572
Language
English
Format
text
