Maidens, Matrons, and Magicians: Women and Personal Ritual Power in Late Antique Egypt
The majority of this study consists of a series of case studies of different types of women’s rituals of power, which emphasize examples of significant trends in ritual iconography, praxis, and context, both those which were typical of late antique Egyptian magic as a whole, and those which were uniquely female in character.
Some Notes about an Early African Pool of Cultures from which Emerged the Egyptian Civilisation
Until the 1980s, there was alack of archaeological excavation in Egypt’s WesternDesert. Today, the historical genetics of the Nile Valley,which is at one and the same time the ‘crossroad and refugium’, and the ‘Saharan affinities’ of the Predynastic Egyptians, have begun to be clearly identified
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
The role of the chantress in ancient Egypt
The goal of this study is to determine what it meant to be a Sm-r, or chantress, in ancient
Egypt. Very little is known about the specifics of the title or the types of people who held it. Surprisingly, there is also a male version of the title, Smr, but the female version is by far the more prevalent. It is the women who held this title that will be the focus of this study.
Egypt
The following thesis developed out of a desire to understand the process behind identity formation in the ancient world.
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.
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.
Studies in the Representation of Dwarfs in Hellenistic and Roman Art
As individuals who fell outside the prevailing norms of society, dwarfs were often regarded as prodigies in antiquity: living amulets as well as instruments of private and public entertainment.
The Transformation of a Goddess: Depictions of Isis throughout the Ancient Mediterranean World
However, before the cult of Isis spread to the Roman world, the goddess was first worshiped in Egypt. Although the myth of Isis and Osiris is never completely narrated in any one Egyptian document, many different texts include short extracts from it, so that modern scholars can reconstruct it.
The Face of Victory? A Misidentified Head in Rome and the ‘Problem’ of Charioteer Portraits
Since its publication some twenty years ago, John Humphrey’s monograph has assumed a central place inthe study of circus iconography. While not a work of art history proper, Humphrey’s study relies heavily upon visual evidence in reconstructing the contexts in which chariot racing took place.