Conferences
29 October 2024 Start
31 October 2024 End
Greece École française d'Athènes, Didotou 6, Athens, 10680

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Egyptian Cults in the Balkans

Tuesday 29 October 2024 - Thursday 31 October 2024

International Conference
Egyptian Cults in the Balkans

Organised by the École française d’Athènes (EFA) and the Institute of Balkan Studies & Center of Thracology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IBCT-BAS)

With the support of the Horizon TMA-Maria Skłodowska-Curie Actions (projet n˚101130859 – ECAT) and the Institut français de Bulgarie.

Programme

The spread of Egyptian cults in the Balkans was a multi-layered and continuous process of great importance for the history of the region. In fact, it was a process that has lasted for more than eight centuries – from the beginning of the Hellenistic period (end of the 4th BC) to the end of the Roman Empire (4th century AD) – and it has left an imprint on religious beliefs of the local population.

The main goal of the congress is to bring together scholars from the Balkan and other countries, to discuss the existing documentation of the diffusion of the Egyptian cults and their influence in the Balkans.  We will discuss questions as the degree of worship of Egyptian deities in the Balkan lands, ways of penetration, ethnic and social characteristics of the adepts, distinctive features and / or types of statuary, epigraphic and numismatic material.