‎Bryan Ward - Perkins, Antonio E. Felle (eds)‎
‎Cultic Graffiti in the Late Antique Mediterranean and Beyond‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Paperback, xx + 192 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:108 b/w, 21 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503593111.‎

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‎Summary Graffiti, scratched or drawn on the walls of religious shrines, provide unique unmediated evidence of how ordinary men and women, many of them pilgrims, invoked and sought the help of God and the saints in Late Antiquity. The papers in this volume document and discuss cultic graffiti across the entire late antique Mediterranean, and into Nubia and Arabia. The principal focus is the Christian world, but there are also papers that look back to pre-Christian practice, and into the world of early Islam. Presenting evidence that is often unfamiliar, this is an important volume for anyone interested in the History and Archaeology of Late Antiquity. In examining cultic practice, we are almost always compelled to view the actions of devotees through texts written by the ecclesiastical elite, often with a clear hagiographical agenda in mind - cultic graffiti are evidence produced by the protagonists themsleves. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction - ANTONIO E. FELLE AND BRYAN WARD-PERKINS Graffiti in Religious Spaces in First-Century Pompeii: Lararia, Neighborhood Shrines, and Graffiti in the Early Roman Empire - REBECCA 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 'Slave of the Apostle Philip': Byzantine Graffiti from Hierapolis of Phrygia (Turkey) - FRANCESCO GUIZZI Late Antique Christian Graffiti: The Case of Rome (Third to Fifth Century CE) - ANTONIO E. 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 Ab? ?innis - ALAIN DELATTRE Pilgrims and Seafarers: A Survey of Travellers' Graffiti from the Aegean Islands - PAWE? NOWAKOWSKI Associational Religion in Late Antiquity? Professional Groups, Factions, and Confraternities in Christian Cultic Graffiti - EFTHYMIOS RIZOS Religious Graffiti from Early Islam in Arabia and the Near East - FR D RIC IMBERT Cultic Graffiti in Christian Nubia (Sixth to Fifteenth Century) - ADAM ?AJTAR Inscriptions, Graffiti, Graffiti Devotionis Causa: Some Concluding Notes and Reflections - ANTONIO E. FELLE Graffiti and Religion: Some Concluding Remarks and Perspectives - BRYAN WARD-PERKINS‎