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- Title
Ritual, art and society in the Levantine Chalcolithic: the 'Processional' wall painting from Teleilat Ghassul.
- Authors
Drabsch, Bernadette; Bourke, Stephen
- Abstract
The fragmentary 'Processional' wall painting from Teleilat Ghassul in Jordan is here shown to depict a religious procession involving eight individuals rather than the three identified in the original 1970s reconstruction. All of the figures wear masks and carry objects, but elaborately robed leaders, members perhaps of a dedicated priestly class, are clearly distinguished from their naked attendants. The scene belongs to the Late Chalcolithic period when Levantine society was becoming increasingly hierarchical, and the wall painting as a whole illustrates the prominent role of elites in ritual practices at this critical period of social transformation.
- Subjects
MIDDLE East; COPPER Age; GHASSUL Site (Jordan); ANCIENT art; RELIGIOUS processions; RELIGIOUS art; SOCIAL hierarchies; RITUAL; HISTORY
- Publication
Antiquity, 2014, Vol 88, Issue 342, p1081
- ISSN
0003-598X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0003598X00115339