Table of Contents
General Abbreviations...... IX
Joachim Friedrich Quack and Christian Witschel Introduction: Religious Confluences in the Roman Empire; or: Why ‘Oriental Cults’ Again?...... 1
I The Concept of ‘Oriental Cults’ in Recent Debates
Jaime Alvar The ‘Romanization’ of ‘Oriental Cults’...... 23
Julietta Steinhauer Osiris mystes und Isisorgia - Gab es ,Mysterien6 der ägyptischen Gottheiten? .... 47
II Origins and Diffusion of ‘Oriental Cults’ within the Imperium Romanum: The Case of Jupiter Dolichenus
Engelbert Winter The Cult of Jupiter Dolichenus and its Origins. The Sanctuary at Dülük Baba Tepesi near Doliche...... 79
Michael Blömer The Cult of Jupiter Dolichenus in the East...... 96
Mihäly Loränd Deszpa Jupiter Optimus Maximus Dolichenus and the Re-Imagination of the Empire: Religious Dynamics, Social Integration, and Imperial Narratives...... 113
III Expanding frorn Egypt into Globality: The Case of Isis and Osiris
Ian S. Moyer The Hymns of Isidorus at Medinet Mach: Global Currents in a Local Context....182
Svenja Nagel One for All and All for One? Isis unaas quae es(t) omnia in the Egyptian Temples of the Graeco-Roman Period...... 207 Martin Andreas Stadler New Light on the Universality of Isis (pVienna D. 6297+6329+10101)...... 232
Joachim Friedrich Quack Resting in Pieces and Integrating the Oikoumene. On the Mental Expansion of the Religious Landscape by Means of the Body Parts of Osiris...... 244
IV The Visual Conceptualization of ‘Oriental Gods’
Miguel John Versluys Egypt as Part of the Romankoine: Mnemohistory and the Iseum Campense in Rome...... 274
Darius Frackowiak Mithräische Bilderwelten. Eine Untersuchung zu ausgewählten ikonographischen Elementen im römischen Mithraskult...... 294
Ralf Krumeich Zwischen Orient und Okzident. Bilder des Jupiter Dolichenus und der Juno Regina aus dem Osten und Westen des Römischen Reiches...... 329
V Changing Forms o f Sacred Space, Sanctuaries and Rituals
Kathrin Kleibl An Audience in Search of a Theatre - The Staging of the Divine in the Sanctuaries of Graeco-Egyptian Gods...... 353
Florence Saragoza Exploring Walls: On Sacred Space in the PompeianIseum...... 372
Andreas Hensen Templa et spelaea Mithrae. Unity and Diversity in the Topography, Architecture and Design of Sanctuaries in the Cult of Mithras...... 384
Richard Gordon From East to West: Staging Religious Experience in the Mithraic...... Temple413 List of Contributors...... 443
Index of Sources...... 447
Index of Names...... 460
Plates...... I-LXXXV
Colour Plates...... I-VII