Tag: Iconography

Articles

Hierarchy of Women within Elite Families. Iconographic Data from the Old Kingdom

When the hierarchy of women is concerned, the range of data is limited, since women were virtually excluded from the bureaucracy, and the number of their own tombs is relatively low. In spite of this, over recent decades the studies focusing on women have been steadily increasing our knowledge on the position and roles of women in the Egyptian society of the Old Kingdom

Articles

Hades: Cornucopiae, Fertility and Death

This lack of enthusiasm for his society is reflected in the comparatively small number of depictions of Hades in art, in comparison with the other Olympians. Even so, I cannot of course cover all his iconography in this paper. What I would like to do here is pick out some specific features of interest, some areas, in fact, in which Hades has been seen to depart from his grim roots, and talk about what light they shed on how Hades was perceived.

Articles

The Coinage of Rues

The aim of this study is to re-examine the earlier work on this series, and to offer an alter- native interpretation of the enigmatic RVES/RVIIS legend. It will seek to establish the likely phasing of the different issues relative to Tasciovanos’s main series, and in the process examine potential models, both classical and Celtic, which may have inspired the iconography of these coins. Finally, it will examine what regional trends, if any, are shown up by the distribution patterns.