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British Museum based project on religion and material culture in the 1st millennium

Month: January 2018

Unexpected Meetings #5: Facing the Afterlife

For our fifth instalment of this series of posts on unexpected juxtapositions in the Imagining the Divine exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, Maria Lidova is struck by two very different objects in the first gallery that tackle similar themes of death and marriage.

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Empires of FaithJanuary 23, 2018January 23, 2018Leave a comment

Unexpected Meetings #4: The Maskell Ivory

The fourth in a series of blog posts inspired by the juxtaposition of objects in the Ashmolean exhibition Imagining the Divine, which closes on February 18th 2018. Here, Prof. Jaś Elsner considers two juxtaposed figures within one object, an ivory plaque from a late Roman ivory casket. Continue reading “Unexpected Meetings #4: The Maskell Ivory”

Empires of FaithJanuary 5, 2018January 5, 2018Leave a comment

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