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Month: April 2017

Mithra: the surprising inadequacy of labels

The fifth in a series of weekly installments featuring insights from the authors of ‘Images of Mithra’, published in March 2017, looks at coins in the Kushan empire, and why having a name for something isn’t always a good thing.

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Empires of FaithApril 27, 2017July 6, 2017Leave a comment

Mithra, Mihr, and Zarathushtra

The fourth in a series of weekly instalments featuring insights from the authors of ‘Images of Mithra’, published in March 2017, explores how a rock relief in western Iran, carved during the time of the Sasanian Persian Empire (AD 224-651), has been re-imagined over the centuries.

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Empires of FaithApril 21, 2017July 6, 2017Leave a comment

Pilgrimage in Twelver Shi’ism: fieldwork on the Camino de Santiago

Fuchsia Hart discusses her work on pilgrimage within the Shi’a tradition, and her recent trip to Spain to undertake part of the Camino de Santiago.
 

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Empires of FaithApril 20, 2017April 17, 20172 Comments

Mithras – what is there to say?

The third in a series of weekly instalments featuring insights from the authors of ‘Images of Mithra‘, published in March 2017, questions what we can learn from seemingly the most permanent of all Mithraic remains – sculptures carved into the living rock.

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Empires of FaithApril 14, 2017July 6, 2017Leave a comment

Mithras: whose god?

The second in a series of weekly instalments featuring insights from the authors of ‘Images of Mithra‘, published in March 2017, looks at what we can learn about the community of Mithras worshippers in the Roman world through the objects that depict the god.

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Empires of FaithApril 6, 2017July 6, 2017Leave a comment

Algeria: Late Antique Secrets

Stefanie Lenk talks about her most recent research trip to Algeria in the company of nine fellow academics from Oxford and the British Museum, and discusses some the highlights of the trip for her own work on Late Antique baptisteries.

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Empires of FaithApril 3, 2017April 27, 2017Leave a comment

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