Diademe und Siegel, Tassen und Perlen: Gold in der mykenischen Welt

There is intenral evidence for post-mortem expectations in the Roman cult of Mithras. Despite Robert Turcan's Demonstration in 1975 of the biases of the Neo-platonist reports of Mithraic belief, it continues routinely to be supposed that, as a 'mystery-cult', the cult of Mithras must have had expectations about the after-life. This paper suggests an alternative model, and offers three 'thought-experiments' as to possible evocatory 'nodes' that individual Mithraic Fathers might have started thier own speculations.

Das Diadem der hellenistischen Herrscher. Übernahme, Transformation oder Neuschöpfung eines Herrschaftszeichens, 2012

The following paper examines the question of whether, when and in what form the diadem was a symbol of power in the Ancient Near East. Special attention will be paid to the representation of the Assyrian king and his crown prince.

Zerstörung von Geschriebenem, 2019

The Inscriptions of the Gold Treasure from Nagyszentmiklós / Sânnicolau Mare in the Byzantine Context None of the Byzantine inscriptions or inscription forms on metal vessels we know served as an immediate model for the inscriptions of Nagyszentmiklós / Sânnicolau Mare, which is certainly also due to the fact that the stock of existing possible models is as yet only insufficiently documented. In particular, it is possible that Bowls 9 and 10 imitated an actual, however lost or for the time being unknown, model. On the whole, there is no doubt that the inscriptions, even the rune inscription on Bowl 8, adopted the design vocabulary of the inscriptions on Byzantine vessels. In this context, much suggests looking for the spiritual environment of the inscriptions from Nagyszentmiklós / Sânnicolau Mare at at the western fringes of the Byzantine world.