Abstract

The first half of this lecture is historiographical, focusing on the role played by the great Belgian scholar Franz Cumont (1868-1947) in the study of the religious life of Dura-Europos. The second half will deal with an associated project that Ted Kaizer is undertaking with Professor Rubina Raja, director of the ‘Palmyra portrait project’ of Aarhus University, on the Palmyrene tesserae in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen.

Short CV

Ted Kaizer is a Dale T. Mortensen Senior Fellow at AIAS. He is also Senior Lecturer in Roman Culture and History at the Department of Classics & Ancient History of Durham University, UK. He was educated at Leiden (MA 1995) and Brasenose College, Oxford University (DPhil 2000), UK, and held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University (2002-2005) before moving on to Durham. His main research interest is the social and religious history of the Near East in the Late Hellenistic and Roman period. He is the author of The Religious Life of Palmyra (Stuttgart 2002) and has written many articles on various aspects of religion and history of the Classical Levant.

AIAS JCS Fellow Steen Hannestad will introduce Ted Kaizer's seminar. 

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