Female figurines in late antique Egypt - Guest lecture

Prof. David Frankfurter, Department of Religion at Boston University. One of the most tantalizing corpora of evidence for the Christianization of Egyptian religion is the great diversity of female figurines, evidently produced in workshops all over Egypt, yet unattested or documented in any texts. This lecture, part of a larger project on the local sites of Christianization, uses these figurines and their forms to reconstruct the iconographic strategies of the workshop, the ritual procedures of the client or ritual subject (at shrine or tomb), and the nature of the domestic shrine. Registration required, see site.

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