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Pagan Inscriptions, Christian Viewers
Language: en
Pages: 353
Authors: Anna M. Sitz
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Pennsylvania, 2017, under the title: The writing on the wall: inscriptions and memory in the temples o
Making and Breaking the Gods
Language: en
Pages: 350
Authors: Troels Myrup Kristensen
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-30 - Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag

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The basic premise of the book at hand is that there is meaning to be 'excavated' (in both meanings of the word) from Christian responses to pagan sculpture in t
Understanding Early Christian Art
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Robin M. Jensen
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-08-29 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Surveying the content and character of early Christian iconography from the third to the sixth century CE, this substantially revised and updated new edition of
Patrons and Viewers in Late Antiquity
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: Stine Birk
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-12 - Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag

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Antiquity was a multi-cultural and multi-religious world. Meetings and interactions between cultures in East and West, and the consequent widespread exchange of
Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Jennifer Taylor Westerfeld
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-01 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Throughout the pharaonic period, hieroglyphs served both practical and aesthetic purposes. Carved on stelae, statues, and temple walls, hieroglyphic inscription
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