Lloyd D Graham
Biographic Data
| ID | 6420619 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lloyd D Graham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lloyd D |
| FAMILY NAME | Graham |
| SIGNATURE | GRAHAM L D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centro de Investigación de la Caña de Azúcar de Colombia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4149-2120 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Cultural Similarities between Ancient Egypt and Byzantium
This paper is intended as a joint tribute to the scholarship of Egyptologist Erik Hornung and Byzantinist Cyril Mango, both of whom recently passed away. Drawing on Hornung’s Idea Into Image as a starting point for Egyptological insights, this paper seeks to establish such a correspondence. Shared features of the two cultures include their self-belief, theocratic disposition, bureaucracy, longevity, feigned immutability, preoccupation with order,…
The Moon card of the Tarot deck may reprise an ancient amuletic design against the Evil Eye
This paper proposes a novel source for –or at least influence on– the iconography of the Moon trump in the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, which preserves the design from the Tarot de Marseille. In fact, the Moon template appears to date back to the earliest days of the Tarot. The proposed source or prototype is a Greco-Roman talismanic design against the Evil Eye known as the “all-suffering eye”, which frequently occupies the reverse face of Byzantine c…
Iconographic Similarities Between Permian “Goddess Plaques” (Ural Region, 7-8th Centuries CE) and Horus Cippi (Egypt, 8th Century BCE - 2nd Century CE)
The iconography of the Horus cippus, an amulet popular in Egypt from the late Third Intermediate Period to Roman times (8thcentury BCE - 2nd century CE), is unexpectedly recapitulated in bronze “goddess plaques” of the 7-8th centuries CE made by Permian peoples – Finno-Ugric groups from the Ural region of northern Eurasia. The likely explanation is that both templates are descendants of the widely-diffused “Master of Animals” motif, which origina…
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Iconographic Similarities Between Permian “Goddess Plaques” (Ural Region, 7-8th Centuries CE) and Horus Cippi (Egypt, 8th Century BCE - 2nd Century CE)
The iconography of the Horus cippus, an amulet popular in Egypt from the late Third Intermediate Period to Roman times (8thcentury BCE - 2nd century CE), is unexpectedly recapitulated in bronze “goddess plaques” of the 7-8th centuries CE made by Permian peoples – Finno-Ugric groups from the Ural region of northern Eurasia. The likely explanation is that both templates are descendants of the widely-diffused “Master of Animals” motif, which origina…
Cultural Similarities between Ancient Egypt and Byzantium
This paper is intended as a joint tribute to the scholarship of Egyptologist Erik Hornung and Byzantinist Cyril Mango, both of whom recently passed away. Drawing on Hornung’s Idea Into Image as a starting point for Egyptological insights, this paper seeks to establish such a correspondence. Shared features of the two cultures include their self-belief, theocratic disposition, bureaucracy, longevity, feigned immutability, preoccupation with order,…
The Moon card of the Tarot deck may reprise an ancient amuletic design against the Evil Eye
This paper proposes a novel source for –or at least influence on– the iconography of the Moon trump in the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, which preserves the design from the Tarot de Marseille. In fact, the Moon template appears to date back to the earliest days of the Tarot. The proposed source or prototype is a Greco-Roman talismanic design against the Evil Eye known as the “all-suffering eye”, which frequently occupies the reverse face of Byzantine c…
Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Iconography (2 works) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (1 work) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (1 work) · Ancient Near East History (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work)