Unexpected Meetings #3: Kish

The third in a series of blog posts that draw out additional connections between objects displayed in the Ashmolean Museum’s Imagining the Divine exhibition. Rachel Wood discusses two very different objects from the same site: the city of Kish in the Sasanian Empire. Continue reading “Unexpected Meetings #3: Kish”

Empires of FaithDecember 21, 2017January 15, 2018Leave 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

Empires of Faith

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

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Unexpected Meetings #3: Kish

Mithra, Mihr, and Zarathushtra