“Funerary Art in the Eastern Mediterranean” in a Workshop at the BA
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The BA Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies (ACHS), in collaboration with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) and the Archaeological Society of Alexandria (ASA), organizes an international workshop entitled “Funerary Art in the Eastern Mediterranean (4th c. – 1st c. BCE): Old Connections and New Beginnings, The Necropolis as Memoryscape”, from 16–18 September 2024, in the BACC Delegates Hall.
The workshop aims to study antique funerary art (burial edifices and the painting and sculpture associated with them), and its various modes of reception and study (academic or aesthetic) by the multifaceted, multicultural, and often deeply divided contemporary world of the Eastern Mediterranean. The chief aim would be to examine how funerary art reflects on the one hand mortuary habits, and, on the other, religious beliefs and social norms.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/MpYahUeWGUgELUvS8
The workshop will be conducted in English.