AIA Lecture: "Roman Religion, Pisidian Practice: Votive ‘Rock-Art’ in Southwest Anatolia"

November 9, 2017 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm

Dr. Tyler Jo Smith, Director of Interdisciplinary Archaeology Program at the University of Virginia, will give a lecture entitled “Roman Religion, Pisidian Practice: Votive ‘Rock-Art’ in Southwest Anatolia.” The local Anatolian horseman, sometimes called Kakasbos, and the twin hero-gods, Castor and Pollux, are among the figures featured in Hellenistic and Roman rock-cut reliefs have been discovered in archaeological work at Pisidia. Similar reliefs have been identified in northern Lycia. This lecture presents the reliefs by type and location, and takes a fresh look at their cults and iconography.

Location and Address

342 Cathedral of Learning