Books in the Visual Conversations in Art and Archaeology Series series

This book presents six case-studies of objects from different periods and regions of antiquity that are labelled by variations of the name Mithra, including the Roman Mithras, Persian Mihr, and Bactrian Miiro. Each chapter places each object in its original context, before questioning its role in religious ritual, tradition, and belief.

What is a vessel? In this volume, four essays by leading scholars tackle the category of the vessel in a comparative conversation between ancient Greece, Rome, China, and pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, offering an innovative art history of a particular class of object in ancient societies.

What conditions must be met, what has to be in place, for a work of art to be visible? In this volume, leading scholars working at the intersection of archaeology and the history of art compare modern ways of seeing with ancient, art-historical approaches.