Download or read book Textiles in Ritual and Cultic Practices in the Ancient Near East from the Third to the First Millennium BC written by Salvatore Gaspa and published by Ugarit Verlag. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The workshop aims at presenting current research on textual, iconographical, and archaeological evidence for the use of textiles in ritual and cult in the Ancient Near East. The main purpose is to address questions related to the use of raw materials, garments of ritual performers and cult images, textile tools in ritual and cultic practices as well as textile metaphors and analogical formulas in rituals.