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Bojana Plemić: Iconography of the Danubian Horsemen Cult: Main Figures, Interpretations and Dating Problems Sorin Nemeti: Religio and superstitio in Roman Dacia Csaba Szabó: Religious glocalization in the Danubian provinces: the case study of Mithras and the "Danubian Riders” četvrtak, 13. studenoga 2025. Predavanja na engleskom jeziku Sudjelovanje je besplatno Predavanja su dostupna UŽIVO I ONLINE putem Zoom platforme https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81856815230?pwd=xNDhrfaub638D066yhWcdpUdbRwC9R.1 Meeting ID: 818 5681 5230
Bojana Plemić (Academy of Applied Studies Belgrade): Iconography of the Danubian Horsemen Cult: Main Figures, Interpretations and Dating Problems The iconography of the Danubian Horsemen cult remains one of its greatest mysteries, as the fundamental nature of this religious phenomenon has yet to be fully understood. The intricate artistic details, such as non-standardized compositions that vary across numerous types of stone monuments and particularly lead plaques, have captivated many researchers throughout the long history of this cult study, spanning more than a century. Due to the elaborate details of this complex cult image, which as the only constant depicts one or two horsemen alongside a female deity, scholars have proposed various names for the cult, along with a different understanding of its other representations, including several deity figures, ritual scenes, or symbols. Likewise, it is widely recognized that this cult constitutes a syncretistic phenomenon, characterized by diverse pictorial influences from Late Antiquity, such as Oriental, Thracian, Celtic, and official Roman elements. Following the above, we will resume the key iconographic characteristics associated with the Danubian Horsemen cult, together with commonly accepted interpretations of these features. Additionally, we will emphasize recent efforts to establish a more accurate chronological framework through the analysis of specific details derived from other cults. This is especially important for certain types of Danubian Horsemen monuments that are particularly prevalent in the Pannonian regions.
Sorin Nemeti (Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca): Religio and superstitio in Roman Dacia Dacia had been an intensly colonised province and its provincial pantheon reflects the image of a mosaic of cults. In reality however, the general scene is occupied by the traditional Graeco-Roman religion, which designates itself as a civic religion. Communities with self-administration organized after Rome’s model, municipia and coloniae, are also copying the religious institutions, disseminating them at a provincial level. Various emigrated groups carry with them the deities of the sanctuaries belonging to their home lands, showcasing collective or individual religious feelings. Civic religion, the religion of sanctuaries, public cults, private religious manifestations, they are all forms in which the complex religious picture of Dacia presents itself. As everywhere in the Empire, in Roman Dacia daily materiality was infused with the presence of deities. People were like nowadays, more or less religious, but gods were everywhere, their images occupying temples, shrines, domestic lararia, and also the interiors of houses, by decorating walls, furniture, vessels, or jewellery. Due to the fact that the majority of the available sources are archaeological remnants of cult edifices, altars, inscribed statue bases and monumental sculptures (from the major works of art, to terracotta figurines, and everyday use objects depicting the images of deities), our attention will focus mainly on the interpretation of these sources that withstood the test of time and survived up to our days. In conclusion, our investigation aims at reconstructing (as much as the archaeological remnants allow it) the religious universe of the provincial inhabitants of Dacia, exploring the religious encyclopedia (mythological traditions and the concepts about gods), the correct ritualistic practice (orthopraxy as resulted from the archaeological, epigraphical and sculptural data of the province), as well as peripheral ritualistic practices pertaining to foreign cults (sacra peregrina) or magical practices. Csaba Szabó (University of Szeged): Religious glocalization in the Danubian provinces: the case study of Mithras and the "Danubian Riders” The paper is focusing on two case studies from the rich religious market of the Roman Empire and its Danubian provinces: the cult of Roman Mithras and the so-called Danubian Riders’ cult. The paper will present the methodological concept of religious glocalization, as a relatively new approach in Roman religious studies, emphasizing the dimensions and forms of interaction between global (universal, empire-scale) and local (regional) religious traditions and strategies of appropriation. In this context, the two case studies will serve as experimental fields for religious glocalization and translocality, following the methodological approach of Victor Roudometof and David Van Alten. |
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