Abigail Graham
Biographic Data
| ID | 5663796 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abigail Graham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abigail |
| FAMILY NAME | Graham |
| SIGNATURE | GRAHAM A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9710-2035 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
New Voices in Epigraphy Past and Present
The article aims to shed new light on the voices of bereaved benefactors: slaves, freedmen and freedwomen, who are often marginalized in literary and monumental sources, by exploring a series of unpublished funerary inscriptions from Rome, currently in storage at the Museo Nazionale Romano. Editions of the text, translations and commentaries have been produced by young scholars from the British School at Rome (former participants of the BSR Postg…
Nobody Is Gonna Rain on My Parade
Processions were among the earliest ‘moving pictures’ in which the brain could develop the cognitive process of ‘reading’ a landscape and embedding a memory through sensory experiences. Salutaris’ foundation, a text inscribed outside the theatre at Ephesus which records the organization of a ritual procession for Artemis, tends to be treated as a factual guide by scholars, rather than as aspirational script for an event: repeated legal clauses, c…
Senses, Cognition, and Ritual Experience in the Roman World
How do the senses shape the way we perceive, understand, and remember ritual experiences? This book applies cognitive and sensory approaches to Roman rituals, reconnecting readers with religious experiences as members of an embodied audience. These approaches allow us to move beyond the literate elites to examine broader audiences of diverse individuals, who experienced rituals as participants and/or performers. Case studies of ritual experiences…
Re-Appraising the Value of Same-Text Relationships; a Study of ‘Duplicate’ Inscriptions in the Monumental Landscape at Aphrodisias
How do we treat two monumental dedications with the same or similar text? Modern epigraphic resources often give a full description of one text once, then make reference to another ‘copy’ or ‘copies’. This paper argues that a ‘copy’ is worthy of study as an inscription in its own right; by examining the differences between two inscriptions with the same or similar text, unique insights can be gained into the monumental message and how it would ha…
Beyond the Military Revolution
The Word Is Not Enough
This work defines a clear set of monumental criteria for examining an inscription’s monumental appearance, including the appearance of the text (e.g., its arrangement on the monument, the use of decorations, variations in letter size, and, in the case of bilingual inscriptions, the presentation of two different languages) and its relationship to the monumental context (in its architectural setting and the urban context). The criteria are applied …
The Word Is Not Enough
This work defines a clear set of monumental criteria for examining an inscription’s monumental appearance, including the appearance of the text (e.g., its arrangement on the monument, the use of decorations, variations in letter size, and, in the case of bilingual inscriptions, the presentation of two different languages) and its relationship to the monumental context (in its architectural setting and the urban context). The criteria are applied …
Beyond the Military Revolution
The Word Is Not Enough
This work defines a clear set of monumental criteria for examining an inscription’s monumental appearance, including the appearance of the text (e.g., its arrangement on the monument, the use of decorations, variations in letter size, and, in the case of bilingual inscriptions, the presentation of two different languages) and its relationship to the monumental context (in its architectural setting and the urban context). The criteria are applied …
Re-Appraising the Value of Same-Text Relationships; a Study of ‘Duplicate’ Inscriptions in the Monumental Landscape at Aphrodisias
How do we treat two monumental dedications with the same or similar text? Modern epigraphic resources often give a full description of one text once, then make reference to another ‘copy’ or ‘copies’. This paper argues that a ‘copy’ is worthy of study as an inscription in its own right; by examining the differences between two inscriptions with the same or similar text, unique insights can be gained into the monumental message and how it would ha…
Nobody Is Gonna Rain on My Parade
Processions were among the earliest ‘moving pictures’ in which the brain could develop the cognitive process of ‘reading’ a landscape and embedding a memory through sensory experiences. Salutaris’ foundation, a text inscribed outside the theatre at Ephesus which records the organization of a ritual procession for Artemis, tends to be treated as a factual guide by scholars, rather than as aspirational script for an event: repeated legal clauses, c…
Senses, Cognition, and Ritual Experience in the Roman World
How do the senses shape the way we perceive, understand, and remember ritual experiences? This book applies cognitive and sensory approaches to Roman rituals, reconnecting readers with religious experiences as members of an embodied audience. These approaches allow us to move beyond the literate elites to examine broader audiences of diverse individuals, who experienced rituals as participants and/or performers. Case studies of ritual experiences…
New Voices in Epigraphy Past and Present
The article aims to shed new light on the voices of bereaved benefactors: slaves, freedmen and freedwomen, who are often marginalized in literary and monumental sources, by exploring a series of unpublished funerary inscriptions from Rome, currently in storage at the Museo Nazionale Romano. Editions of the text, translations and commentaries have been produced by young scholars from the British School at Rome (former participants of the BSR Postg…
Art (4 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)