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Title of Article

AEGYPTIACA ROMANA FROM POMPEII IN THE CULTURAL, HISTORICAL AND RELIGIOUS CONTEXT OF THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE


Issue
3
Date
2022

Article type
scientific article
UDC
94 (37)
Pages
54-62
Keywords
 


Authors
Chistalev M.S.
Nizhegorodskiy gosudarstvennyy universitet im. N.I. Lobachevskogo


Abstract
This paper considers several groups of objects of Aegyptiaca Romana, belonging to the most significant topoi of Egyptian culture and still causing certain controversy in world historiography, in particular, the religious Aegyptiaca from Pompeian households. According to the author, when studying Aegyptiaca Romana, one should clearly follow the approach that has developed in historiography in recent decades, implying the rejection of unconditional religious interpretation of Egyptian and egiptianizing objects and artifacts without a proper study of the context in which this subject existed. The author comes to the conclusion that the nature and extent of the spread of the religious Aegyptiaca Romana in Pompeii indicates that already in the first century AD processes of religious synthesis were actively taking place in Italy, the result of which is the appearance of new syncretic deities, including the attributes of both Roman and Egyptian gods. The popularity of Egyptian religious cults among romans was largely due to the internal need for the formation of ideas about the protection of an individual from evil forces, a decent afterlife and rebirth after death. That's why the acquaintance of the Romans with Egyptian religious traditions determined their further distribution in the territory of the Roman Empire.

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