Faces of the Gods, Gods without Faces / Die Gesichter der Götter, Götter ohne Gesicht

Faces of the Gods, Gods without Faces / Die Gesichter der Götter, Götter ohne Gesicht

Editor: Dan Ruscu

 

Acts of the Humboldt Colloquium, Cluj-Napoca 25-26 October / Oktober 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/subbhist.2026.1

Published: 2026-06-30

©Studia UBB Historia. Published by Babeș-Bolyai University.

ISSN (online): 2065-9598 | ISSN (print): 1220-0492 | ISSN-L: 1220-0492

 
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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Introductions & Arguments

• Introduction

  Eduard NEMETH

  5-6

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Articles

• We have many pictures of ancient Egyptian gods, but we don’t know what they looked like

  John BAINES

  7-46

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• Gods with faces: a view from Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, Old Testament and early Greek literature

  Angus Morton BOWIE

  47-74

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• Von Götterbildern zu Ehrenstatuen: Kult, Erinnerung und politische Kohäsion im hellenistischen Schwarzmeerraum

  Victor COJOCARU

  75-132

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• Encirclement, the ouroboros, and clues of ritual activity and religious belief in the magical gems

  Mălina-Teodora PUȘCAȘU

  133-162

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• Des Gaulois figés dans la pierre pour l’éternité. Regards sur la sculpture anthropomorphe de l’âge du Fer

  Sophie KRAUSZ

  163-183

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• Faces of Gods, gods without faces? Starting a debate about the case of the Dacian religion and cult

  Gelu A. FLOREA

  185-200

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• Religious transformations among the ancient Vascones: the encounter between Vasconic traditions and Roman official cult

  Javier ANDREU

  201-215

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• Le visage d’argile de Julien et le miracle des éclairs (Psellus, Script. Min. I, 446)

  Sorin NEMETI

  217-226

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• ‘Simulacra deorum’ in the Epigraphy of Moesia inferior and Scythia

  Florian MATEI-POPESCU

  227-234

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• Peridrumus and the inscription of the Liber Sanctus Deus sanctuary in Valcum (Pannonia Superior) / Keszthely (Hungary)

  Ádám NAGYERNYEI SZABÓ

  235-250

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• Adopting the Medusa motif in Sarmatian contexts: cultural transfers and apotropaic functions in Barbaricum

  Lavinia GRUMEZA

  251-267

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• Not All Angels Have Wings: Scripture and Graeco-Roman Models in Late Antique Angel Iconography

  Dan RUSCU

  269-299

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