Death on the Nile

Lecture

Death on the Nile: Funerary Texts and Contexts in Graeco-Roman Egypt

Sofía Torallas Tovar, Científica Titular del Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales del CSIC y Associate Professor, Dpt Classics University of Chicago

Wednesday, 4 JuneSalto de línea 19:00 h.Salto de línea Lecture hall

In Graeco-Roman Egypt there was a society going through transformation, a multilingual and multiethnic society in which religions and traditions met, were confronted and often mixed up. In this cultural and religious melting pot, funerary traditions have provided us with a rich material heritage, in which we will focus on a small artefact: the mummy label.