Lara Weiss

Datos Biográficos

ID6940646
NOMBRELara Weiss
NOMBRESLara
APELLIDOWeiss
FIRMAWEISS L
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Erfurt
ORCID0000-0002-5890-2897
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS6
TOTAL DE CITAS7
TOTAL COMO AUTOR6
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2009
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2022
ÍNDICE H1

  • The Leiden-Turin Excavations at Saqqara

    Open AccessLara Weiss, Christian GrecoARTICLEHeritage2022

    This article highlights the history of almost 50 years of Leiden archaeological work at Saqqara, in the cemetery south of the Unas causeway, and places the recent findings of the current Leiden-Turin Expedition within a broader historical context, both ancient and modern. The relationship between the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden and Egypt started almost 200 years ago, with the acquisition of the first objects. The arrival of a collection of important…

  • Religion in the making

    Open AccessJanico Albrecht, Christopher Degelmann et al.ARTICLEReligion2018Citada por: 7Referencias: 59

    For the past five years (2012–2017), the Max Weber Center of Erfurt University has hosted a project on ‘Lived Ancient Religion: Questioning “cults” and “polis religion”’, financed by the European Research Council and embedded in the research group on ‘Religious individualisation in historical perspective’ (see Fuchs and Rüpke. [2015. “Religious Individualisation in Historical Perspective.” Religion 45 (3): 323–329. doi:10.1080/0048721X.2015.10417…

  • The Significance of Objects

    Open AccessRubina Raja, Lara WeissARTICLEReligion in the Roman Empire2016

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  • The Role of Objects

    Open AccessRubina Raja, Lara WeissARTICLEReligion in the Roman Empire2015

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  • The Consumption of Religion in Roman Karanis

    Open AccessLara WeissARTICLEReligion in the Roman Empire2015

    This article takes a critical look at methodological questions when using artefacts of material culture in the history of religions: how were figurines typified in old excavations and how do we today decide between categorisation of objects as toys or religious objects? Drawing on artefacts excavated at Karanis in the 1930s and also including ethnographic evidence, the paper seeks to overcome the old dichotomy by taking into account the option of…

  • Personal Religious Practice

    Open AccessLara WeissARTICLEThe Journal of Egyptian Archaeology2009

    The household assemblage at Deir el-Medina reflects the abandonment process of the village rather than the areas of household activity. The analysis of immobile features is therefore more reliable as a source of information than the study of artefacts. An important immovable feature of the houses at Deir el-Medina is the platform (the so-called lits clos). It is shown that these platforms served as house altars. The custom of building house altar…