Communal Dining

Martens, Marleen

doi:10.1002/9781118886809.ch13

A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World 2015

DOI: 10.1002/9781118886809.ch13

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Communal Dining

Marleen Martens¹

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The Banqueting Tesserae from Palmyra

Raja

2024

The Oxford Handbook of Palmyra

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The banqueting tesserae, most of which were found scattered across the site, but with large concentrations in the sanctuaries of the city, remain one of the best sources documenting the diversity of the religious life of Palmyra. While a corpus was published in 1955, which gave a fine overview of the more than 1,100 types of tesserae, these small tokens have only recently begun to be studied in a systematic way, which now allows scholars to say much more about the implications that they carry for understanding Palmyrene religious life. The small objects, usually made of clay and not measuring more than a few centimetres in diameter, hold a rich and varied iconography connected with the city’s cults, deities, and priesthoods.

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The Banqueting Tesserae from Palmyra

Raja

2024

The Oxford Handbook of Palmyra

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Alla ricerca della salvezza della mente e dell’anima nell’impero romano. Uno sguardo archeologico

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2024

Strumenti Per La Didattica E La Ricerca

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In Roman society of the third century CE, marked by deep innovative drives and by the search for new intellectual models and new forms of transcendence, a comparative reading of christianity and mithraism appears indispensable for understanding these religious phenomena. For a cult like mithraism the voice of archaeological sources is particularly significant and almost exclusive. In fact, literary sources are largely deficient especially when compared with those relating to christianity. After more than a century of systematic research, the construction of a proper Mithraic archaeology is the most appropriate and adequate response to the questions posed by advancing research and discoveries. The international value of a topic that directly involves not only archaeologists but also historians, epigraphists and specialists in history of religions was well demonstrated by the major traveling exhibition on “Mithra plongée au coeur d’un culte romain” (2021-2022).

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The Banqueting Tesserae from Palmyra

The Banqueting Tesserae from Palmyra

Alla ricerca della salvezza della mente e dell’anima nell’impero romano. Uno sguardo archeologico

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