Excavating Pilgrimage

Troels Myrup Kristensen is Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the director of the Sapere Aude-project "The Emergence of Sacred Travel: Experience, Economy and Connectivity in Ancient Mediterranean Pilgrimage" (2013–2017), funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research. His research interests are pilgrimage, visual culture and cultural heritage. Wiebke Friese was until recently Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of History and Classical Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark, as part of the project, "The Emergence of Sacred Travel: Experience, Economy and Connectivity in Ancient Mediterranean Pilgrimage" (2013–2017). She has published on oracle sanctuaries and Athenian women’s festivals.

• List of figuresPreface Notes on contributors 1. Introduction: Archaeologies of pilgrimageWiebke Friese and Troels Myrup Kristensen2. Inter-cultural pilgrimage, identity, and the Axial Age in the ancient Near EastJoy McCorriston3. Collective mysteries and Greek pilgrimage: The cases of Eleusis, Thebes and AndaniaInge Nielsen4. Of piety, gender and ritual space: An archaeological approach to women’s sacred travel in GreeceWiebke Friese 5. The pilgrim’s passage into the sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace Bonna Wescoat6. Pilgrimage and procession in the Panhellenic festivals: Some observations on the Hellenistic Leukophryena in Magnesia-on-the-MeanderKristoph Jürgens7. Palimpsest and virtual presence: A reading of space and dedications at the Amphiareion at Oropos in the Hellenistic periodAlexia Petsalis-Diomidis8. Roman healing pilgrimage north of the AlpsMartin Grünewald 9. Visiting the ancestors: Ritual movement in Rome’s urban borderlandSaskia Stevens10. The pilgrim and the arch: Paths and passageways at Qal’at Sem’an, Sinai, Abu Mina, and TebessaAnn Marie Yasin11. Movement as sacred mimesis at Abu Mena and Qal’at Sem’anHeather Hunter-Crawley12. The allure of the saint: Late antique pilgrimage to the monastery of St ShenouteLouise Blanke 13. Excavating Meriamlik: Sacred space and economy in late antique pilgrimageTroels Myrup Kristensen14. Pilgrimage and multi-religious worship: Palestinian Mamre in Late Antiquity Vlastimil DrbalResponses15. Excavating pilgrimage Jas’ Elsner 16. Pilgrimage progress?Jan N. Bremmer Index

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