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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Dr. Michael Shenkar
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DESCRIPTION:Is there a 'Sogdian Pantheon'? Regionalism and Local Variation
 s in the Religion of the Sogdians (5th-8th centuries CE)\nThe religion of 
 the Sogdians in the Late Antique period is usually referred tо as a singl
 e phenomenon assuming the existence of a common 'Sogdian Pantheon'. Sogdia
 na is a geographical and not a political term. There was never a unified '
 Sogdian state' but a collection of independent or semi-independent princip
 alities sharing common culture\, language and background\, but also demons
 trating important regional differences. It is about time that we approach 
 also the Sogdian religion in terms of temporal development and regional va
 riations.\nThe paper will discuss the primary sources for the study of the
  Sogdian religion\, which is mainly the iconography. It will emphasize the
  neglected\, but significant fact that 80 % of the material on the Sogdian
  religious iconography comes from Panjikent\, which was not even among the
  five largest Sogdian cities and it is also chronologically limited to the
  740s.
LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/shenkar-en/
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