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Mazurek, Sebastien
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Goats and Goddesses. Digital Approach to the Religioscapes of Atargatis and Allat
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Abstract: This study presents the use of a new methodological tool for studying the history of ancient religions through social and geographical aspects. NodeGoat, an open-source online software, helps in creating maps and social network charts as well as visualizing the data on a time axis. The study of worshippers of Allat and Atargatis in the Near East and beyond in the Hellenistic and Roman periods focuses more on the people and their role in creating the religioscapes of the goddesses. Through a digital approach, we can visualize the epigraphic data concerning ancient people, their ties with places, gods, and with each other. The charts and maps show the connectivity of distant places, such as Delos, Syrian Hierapolis, Athens, and Rome, and people of different cultural backgrounds who worshipped the goddesses. The database also lists the professions (capacities) of the worshippers, creating a platform for future study on the prosopography of ancient people, especially in the area of cults. This research highlights the importance of setting ancient people and their belief systems in their geographical and social contexts. Last but not least, it points to the necessity of ordering and cataloguing the dispersed epigraphic sources to explain the processes in ancient religions from the bottom-up approach.
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Online-Ressource
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mapping ; NodeGoat ; ancient Mediterranean ; database ; people
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Kubiak-Schneider, Aleksandra
Mazurek, Sebastien
Title:
Goats and Goddesses. Digital Approach to the Religioscapes of Atargatis and Allat
Publication:
Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025
Language:
English
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Abstract: This study presents the use of a new methodological tool for studying the history of ancient religions through social and geographical aspects. NodeGoat, an open-source online software, helps in creating maps and social network charts as well as visualizing the data on a time axis. The study of worshippers of Allat and Atargatis in the Near East and beyond in the Hellenistic and Roman periods focuses more on the people and their role in creating the religioscapes of the goddesses. Through a digital approach, we can visualize the epigraphic data concerning ancient people, their ties with places, gods, and with each other. The charts and maps show the connectivity of distant places, such as Delos, Syrian Hierapolis, Athens, and Rome, and people of different cultural backgrounds who worshipped the goddesses. The database also lists the professions (capacities) of the worshippers, creating a platform for future study on the prosopography of ancient people, especially in the area of cults. This research highlights the importance of setting ancient people and their belief systems in their geographical and social contexts. Last but not least, it points to the necessity of ordering and cataloguing the dispersed epigraphic sources to explain the processes in ancient religions from the bottom-up approach.
Scope:
Online-Ressource
Note:
Open Access
Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet
Keywords:
mapping ; NodeGoat ; ancient Mediterranean ; database ; people
Classification:
Geschichte
Sonstiges
URN:
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2501161325520.036163489217
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Geschichte
Sonstiges
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Contents

Table of contents

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  • ˜Theœ Southernmost Metallurgy of the American Continent: Its Discussion and Integration Based on the Study of a Copper Ornament from the Lago Meliquina Site (Neuquén, Argentina) / Pérez, Alberto Enrique (CC BY)
  • Migration and Environmental Learning in Interstitial Areas: An Example from the Northern Rio Puerco Valley, New Mexico / Vernon, Kenneth B. (CC BY)
  • A Multi Analytical Investigation of the Original Materials and Previous Conservation Interventions Used in Tutankhamun’s Painted Wooden Bed / Moustafa, Mohamed (CC BY)
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  • Morphological Standardization of Prestige Goods and Political Integration in Early States: A Case Study of Erlitou Jue Vessels, China / Bai, Yang (CC BY)
  • Understanding the Style Differences of Ancient Ridergods Rock Reliefs with Feature Extraction: A Preliminary Research / Dökü, Eray (CC BY)
  • Stay Alert: Analyzing the Effectiveness and Strategic Purpose of a Medieval Beacon System in Namdalen, Central Norway / Nilsen, Markus (CC BY)
  • Open Science and Data Management in Rock Art Studies: The Case of Chufín Cave (Cantabria, Spain) / Ramírez-Ortiz, Agustín F. (CC BY)
  • ˜Theœ So-Called Earplugs from the Anatolian Early Bronze Age in the Context of the Anthropomorphic Vessels: The Possibility of Anthropomorphic Deities for Western Anatolia / Sezer, Okan (CC BY)
  • An Air of Change: Palaeopathological, Archival, Historical and Medical Contextualization of Respiratory Illnesses, Airborne Diseases, Physiological Stress and Orodental Conditions in Industrializing Western Switzerland (Lausanne – La Sallaz Cemetery, 19th – 20th Century CE) / Hofstetter, Tobias (CC BY)
  • Macroregional Settlement Patterns in South-Central Anatolia: Clustering and Visibility Analysis of Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Survey Data / Hordecki, Jędrzej (CC BY)
  • On Pins and Daggers: Compositional Analyses of Prehistoric Metal Artifacts from Across Sardinia / Freund, Kyle P. (CC BY)
  • Ritual and Connectivity in Nuragic Sardinia: An Interdisciplinary Study of Ceramics and Metalwork from Nuraghe Barru / Amicone, Silvia (CC BY)
  • From Periphery to Center: An Overview of Pre-Qin Urbanization from an Urban Architectural Perspective in Jiangxi Province, China / Chen, Qiuxing (CC BY)
  • Neanderthal Activity Through Fire During the Middle Pleistocene in Cova Negra (Xàtiva, Spain) / Oltra-Carrió, Isabela (CC BY)
  • Plants in Burials: The Roman Iron Age Īles mežs Barrow Cemetery (Southern Latvia) / Guščika, Elīna (CC BY)
  • Archival Paradata and Artificial Intelligence in Archaeology / Huvila, Isto (CC BY)
  • Alpine Hunting Grounds and Pastoral Landscapes: Patterns, Hiatuses, and the Impact of Hydropower on Archaeological Sites – A Case Study from Southern Norway / Åstveit, Leif Inge (CC BY)
  • Late Bronze Age Swords of the Lchashen-type: Typology, Technology, and Experimental Reconstruction of Use / Semyan, Ivan (CC BY)
  • Everyday Reorientation: Critical Cartographic Praxis in Non-Specialist Archaeological Maps / Kratimenos, Panos (CC BY)
  • ˜Theœ Emergence of Open Fields, Applying Landscape Ecology in Medieval Eastern Netherlands / (Kees) Bronsveld, Marienus Cornelis (CC BY)
  • ˜Theœ Geological Mining Historical and Environmental Park of Sardinia and the Preservation of the Obsidian Heritage in the Sardinian Territory / Pignatelli, Ciro (CC BY)
  • Settlement Dynamics and Fortification Practices in the Middle Bronze Age: Geoarchaeological Evidence from Dabas–Dabasi Szőlők and the Kakucs Microregion / Jaeger, Mateusz (CC BY)
  • From Stone to Food: Foodways and Ground Stone Tools During the Natufian and Early Neolithic of Eastern Jordan / Pedersen, Patrick Nørskov (CC BY)
  • Water, Soy Sauce, Feces, and Death: A Geometric Morphometric and Machine Learning Analysis of Edo-Period Ogame Jars, Japan / Loftus, James Frances (CC BY)
  • Errata to: An Air of Change: Palaeopathological, Archival, Historical and Medical Contextualization of Respiratory Illnesses, Airborne Diseases, Physiological Stress and Orodental Conditions in Industrializing Western Switzerland (Lausanne – La Sallaz Cemetery, 19th – 20th Century CE) / Hofstetter, Tobias (CC BY)
  • From Stones to Structures: Typology, Building Techniques and Chaînes Opératoires of Late Prehistoric Megalithic Tombs in Menjez (Northern Lebanon) / Defours Rivoira, Méryl (CC BY)
  • Geochemical Provenancing of Volcanic Stone Statuettes and its Implications for Pre-Colonial Microregional Mobility in Southern Honduras (AD 1000–1520) / García-De León, Arturo (CC BY)
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  • Mapping Changes in Settlement Number and Demography in the South of Israel from the Hellenistic to the Early Islamic Period / Cosijns, Lev (CC BY)
  • Network Perspectives in the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean / Lahelma, Antti (CC BY)
  • Deep Mapping the Asklepieion of Pergamon: Charting the Path Through Challenges, Choices, and Solutions / Katevaini, Alexandra (CC BY)
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  • Archaeological Lithotheques of Siliceous Rocks in Spain: First Diagnosis of the Lithotheque Thematic Network / Ortega, David (CC BY)
  • A Glimpse at Raw Material Economy and Production of Chipped Stones at the Neolithic (Starčevo) Site of Svinjarička Čuka, South Serbia / Brandl, Michael (CC BY)
  • An Analogical and Analytical Approach to the Burçevi Monumental Tomb / Pehlivan, Erdener (CC BY)
  • Conceiving Elements of Divinity: The Use of the Semantic Web for the Definition of Material Religiosity in the Levant During the Second Millennium BCE / Laneri, Nicola (CC BY)
  • Raw Materials and Technological Choices: Case Study of Neolithic Black Pottery From the Middle Yangtze River Valley of China / Li, Guoyuan (CC BY)
  • Everyone Has to Start Somewhere: Democratisation of Digital Documentation and Visualisation in 3D / Potter, Rich (CC BY)
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  • Weak Ties on Old Roads: Inscribed Stopping-Places and Complex Networks in the Eastern Desert of Graeco-Roman Egypt / Hackley, Laurel Darcy (CC BY)
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  • Networks of Pots: The Usage of Ceramics in Network Analysis in Mediterranean Archaeology / Daems, Dries (CC BY)
  • Engaging the Public Through Prehistory: Experiences From an Inclusive Perspective / Zamora, Gerard Remolins (CC BY)
  • Decorated Standing Stones – The Hagbards Galge Monument in Southwest Sweden / Skoglund, Peter (CC BY)
  • Valuing Material Cultural Heritage: Engaging Audience (s) Through Development-Led Archaeological Research / Campos-Lopez, Teresa (CC BY)
  • Material Culture, the Public, and the Extraordinary – “Unloved” Museums Objects as the Tool to Fascinate / Zinn, Katharina (CC BY)
  • An Experimental and Methodological Approach of Plant Fibres in Dental Calculus: The Case Study of the Early Neolithic Site of Cova del Pasteral (Girona, Spain) / Herrero-Otal, Maria (CC BY)
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  • Assessing the Development in Open Access Publishing in Archaeology: A Case Study From Norway / Solheim, Steinar (CC BY)
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  • Goats and Goddesses. Digital Approach to the Religioscapes of Atargatis and Allat / Kubiak-Schneider, Aleksandra (CC BY)
  • Waste Around Longhouses: Taphonomy on LBK Settlement in Hlízov / Pilař, Daniel (CC BY)
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  • Recording, Sharing and Linking Micromorphological Data: A Two-Pillar Database System / Russo, Sarah Lo (CC BY)
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