Artist Tabitha Moses talks about her work 'The Go Between'. 

Find out more on the associated resource page on The Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion website: https://www.openmaterialreligion.org/resources-1/2019/2/24/votives

The Go Between (Tabitha Moses)

Artist Tabitha Moses describes her first reaction to the statues of mothers and babies from Capua.

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Votive statues from Capua (Tabitha Moses)

The inaugural seminar of The Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion took place on 14th February 2019. Professor Maureen Carroll from the University of Sheffield gave a paper entitled ‘‘Mater Matuta and her ‘Sisters’:  Exploring Fertility Cults and Associated Votives in Early Roman Religion’. After the seminar, Jessica Hughes and Maureen Carroll were joined by Emma-Jayne Graham and Marion Bowman to record an audio discussion about votives, fertility and early infancy. The discussion also featured the voice of artist Tabitha Moses, talking about her work ‘The Go-Between’.

Find out more at: https://www.openmaterialreligion.org/resources-1/2019/2/24/votives

Programme structure and time-codes

0.00 Introduction

0.31 Maureen Carroll on fertility cults in ancient Rome, and the tufa models of mothers and babies from Capua

7.50 Marion Bowman on the cult of St Gerard Majella in Newfoundland, materiality and relationality

13.46 Emma-Jayne Graham on swaddled infants and other votives in ancient Italic sanctuaries 

19.36 Tabitha Moses on her work ‘The Go Between’

24.28 Studio responses to Tabitha Moses

30.16 Emma-Jayne Graham on model of swaddled infant from Gravisca 

31.27 Marion Bowman on image of St Gerard Majella from the Placentia Bay maternity facility in Newfoundland

33.05 Maureen Carroll on tufa statue of woman from Capua, now in the Villa Giulia museum in Rome.

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Votives, fertility and early infancy

Dr Marion Bowman describes a picture of St Gerard Majella, on display in the maternity ward of Placentia Bay hospital, Newfoundland.

Find out more on the associated resource page on The Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion website: https://www.openmaterialreligion.org/resources-1/2019/2/24/votives

Devotional image of St Gerard Majella (Marion Bowman)

Professor Maureen Carroll describes her first encounter with the tufa statues of mothers and babies from Capua.

Find out more on the associated resource page: https://www.openmaterialreligion.org/resources-1/2019/2/24/votives

Votive statue of mother and baby from Capua (Maureen Carroll)

Antony Lee talks about a Roman candlestick found in the 1970s at Branston near Lincoln. What can this object - and its restoration - tell us about material religion? 
Recorded at the ancient material religion networking day, 3rd April 2019.

Roman Candlestick from Branston, Lincolnshire (Antony Lee)

Stuart McKie talks about a curse tablet and doll found in the temple of Magna Mater and Isis in Mainz, Germany. Read more about this object here: https://mckies.wordpress.com/2014/10/16/curse-tablet-of-the-month-8-october-2014/ 
Recorded at the Ancient Material Religion networking day in Camden, 3rd April 2019.

Curse tablet and doll from Roman Mainz (Stuart McKie)

Phil Perkins talks about an Etruscan bronze figurine from Monte Falterona.

Etruscan bronze figurine from Monte Falterona (Phil Perkins)

Interview with Greywolf, founder of the British Druid Order. 
Recorded at Wildways in Shropshire, August 2019.

Greywolf's drum (Philip Shallcrass)

Kamila Wyslucha introduces the ancient double-pipes (Greek 'aulos, 'tibia' in Latin), demonstrating on a replica of an instrument in the Louvre Museum.

Part of the "Pompeii: Materiality, Sensuality, and Lived Religion" project: visit www.openmaterialreligion.org/project/open-arts for more details.

See independent.academia.edu/KamilaWyslucha

Aulos (Kamila Wyslucha)

Professor Greg Woolf tells us about a small inscribed lead curse tablet dedicated to the god Maponus, which was found in a sacred spring in central France.

Image: Inscribed lead tablet from Chamalières. Length 71 mm.
Bargoin Museum, Clermont-Ferrand.

Curse tablet from Chamalières (Greg Woolf)

Audio resources from The Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion at The Open University. Find out more at www.openmaterialreligion.org

Curse tablet from Chamalières (Greg Woolf)

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