Excavating Pilgrimage

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Archaeologies of pilgrimage -- 2 Inter-cultural pilgrimage, identity, and the Axial Age in the ancient Near East -- 3 Collective mysteries and Greek pilgrimage: The cases of Eleusis, Thebes and Andania -- 4 Of piety, gender and ritual space: An archaeological approach to women's sacred travel in Greece -- 5 The pilgrim's passage into the sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace -- 6 Pilgrimage and procession in the Panhellenic festivals: Some observations on the Hellenistic Leukophryena in Magnesia-on-the-Meander -- 7 Palimpsest and virtual presence: A reading of space and dedications at the Amphiareion at Oropos in the Hellenistic period -- 8 Roman healing pilgrimage north of the Alps -- 9 Visiting the ancestors: Ritual movement in Rome's urban borderland -- 10 The pilgrim and the arch: Paths and passageways at Qal'at Sem'an, Sinai, Abu Mena, and Tebessa -- 11 Movement as sacred mimesis at Abu Mena and Qal'at Sem'an -- 12 The allure of the saint: Late antique pilgrimage to the monastery of St Shenoute -- 13 Excavating Meriamlik: Sacred space and economy in late antique pilgrimage -- 14 Pilgrimage and multi-religious worship: Palestinian Mamre in Late Antiquity -- Responses -- 15 Excavating pilgrimage -- 16 Pilgrimage progress? -- Index