Cultic graffiti in the late antique Mediterranean and beyond /
volume that collects and discusses the graffiti, scratched or drawn on religious shrines in the first centuries of Christianity and Islam, by ordinary men and women, seeking the help of their God and their favoured saints.
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Language: English
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Turnhout, Belgium :
Brepols,
[2021].
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Contextualizing the sacred ;
11.
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Call Number: CN120 .C85 2021
Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Graffiti in religious spaces in first-century Pompeii : Lararia, neighborhood shrines, and graffiti in the early Roman Empire / Rebecca R. Benefiel Contextualizing Christian pilgrim graffiti in the late antique Holy Land / Marlena Whiting Jewish devotional graffiti and Dipinti in the Holy Land / Leah Di Segni 'Servant of the Apostle Philip' : Byzantine graffiti from Hierapolis of Phrygia (Turkey) / Francesco Guizzi Late antique Christian graffiti : the case of Rome (third to fifth centuries CE) / Antonio Felle At the origins of European pilgrimage : the devotional graffiti of the Anglo-Saxons in Rome (seventh-ninth centuries) / Carlo Carletti Inscribing space in Christian Egypt / Jacques Van Der Vliet Graffiti from Christian Egypt and the cult of the saints : a case study from Dayr Abū Ḥinnis / Alain Delattre Pilgrims and seafarers : a survey of travellers' graffiti from the Aegean Islands / Paweł Nowakowski Associational religion in Late Antiquity? : professional groups, factions, and confraternities in Christian-cultic graffiti / Efthymios Rizos Religious graffiti from early Islam inj Arabia and the Near East / Frédéric Imbert Cultic graffiti in Christian Nubia (six to fifteenth centuries) / Adam Łajtar Inscriptions, graffiti, graffiti devotionis causa : some concluding notes and reflections / Antonio E. Felle Graffiti and religion : some concluding remarks and perspectives / Bryan Ward-Perkins.