A Companion Roman Religion - Spiritual Minds

drinking to serving silverware. Imagery is now to be found on the medallions and/or the rims of large open dishes. In one partic ...

Mercury or with cult activities in general, whereas for the third dish, found at Vaise near Lyon together with other dishes, coi ...

camp of Haltern with a procession-like frieze of women (fig. 14.3). It only makes sense when compared to the original scene they ...

appear to be part of the ancient reality, even if we cannot find any convincing explanation. It is quite likely that any persona ...

(Fröhlich 1991: 22–7) – the archaeological evidence confirms the existence of household shrines and gives an insight into variou ...

The main features of the imperial domestic cult go back to the reform of the cult of the Compitales initiated by Augustus in 7 b ...

A statuette could be of value as a work of art – if we remember for instance Novius Vindex and his art collection – and as a cul ...

The domestic cult in the shape given by Augustus must have been extremely popu- lar mainly during the first centuryad, as an eno ...

PART III Symbols and Practices ...

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Roman Cult Sites: A Pragmatic Approach Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser Subject Matter and Disposition This chapter deals ...

1990): the templumis a ritually defined area; it could refer to a section of the sky selected by the augurfor the observation of ...

Especially immovable cult images – as temple buildings (Favro 1996: 150 – 5) and interiors (Mattern 2001) – were subject to a ge ...

or a waste-disposal pit containing charred remains of fruit kernels and bones. These observations should remind us not to infer ...

were used as assembly rooms of the senate, as museums, treasure chambers and archives, trading places and markets, as a unique m ...

socialization must also be taken into account. Unlike today, cults in classical times were almost exclusively celebrated at an o ...

Such routines before the cult image are a characteristic example of the growing integration of cult practice into everyday life ...

To exemplify these preliminary assumptions, we shall now look at three sites that were either founded in the age of Augustus or ...

549 coins (Augustan period to the end of the fourth centuryad); 70 oil lamps, unused – therefore probably dedicated as votives ...

huts for the shade, the supporting tree trunks worthy substitutes for the marble columns of Augustan temple architecture. The Gr ...

1983; Lefèvre 1989; Wiseman 1994; Balensiefen 2002). The primary reason for this is the outstanding political significance of th ...