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

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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

Unexpected Meetings #1: Dionysos & Dionysos

In a new series of short blog posts, the curators of Imagining the Divine draw out connections between pairs of objects in the Ashmolean Museum’s exhibition. Jaś Elsner kicks off proceedings with two of the first artefacts on display. Continue reading “Unexpected Meetings #1: Dionysos & Dionysos”

Empires of FaithNovember 24, 2017December 1, 2017Leave a comment

‘We are the clay and thou our potter’: Biblical themes on Macedonian tiles

Maria Lidova discusses the fascinating Vinica Tiles from Macedonia (FYROM), as featured in the Imagining the Divine exhibition.

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Empires of FaithNovember 13, 2017November 13, 20171 Comment

Installing ‘Imagining the Divine’ #1: 3rd October

Jaś Elsner and Stefanie Lenk are blogging from behind the scenes during the installation of the Ashmolean Museum’s exhibition Imagining the Divine: Art and the Rise of World Religions, opening on October 19th. 

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Empires of FaithOctober 6, 2017October 14, 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

The Importance of Mithras’ Stare: where to look?

The first in a series of weekly instalments featuring insights from the authors of ‘Images of Mithra‘, published in March 2017, looks at perhaps the most well-known depiction of Mithras – the ‘tauroctony’ – and the peculiar direction of the god’s gaze.

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Empires of FaithMarch 29, 2017July 6, 2017Leave a comment

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