Sobre la danza con crótalos en el egipto tardoantiguo

Authors

  • Eva Subias Pascual Universitat Rovira i Virgili

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/2240-5380/10.2020.57

Keywords:

Crotalistria, schemata, marriage, virtue

Abstract

In the artistic productions of late-ancient Egypt, the figure of the crotalistria
dancer appears linked to the Dionysian environment, although it has iconographic features that relate her to Artemis and Aphrodite. Its image evokes, according to the most widespread interpretation, an archaic ritual of oriental origin that would have endured as a professionalized erotic show in the Roman and late-ancient world. In her late formal evolution, the crotalistria dancer appears naked and isolated from the religious cortege, in addition, she tends towards a schematic form that multiplies in objects and fabrics of a domestic nature where she supposedly acquires an apotropaic function. Two lines of inquiry emerge after characterizing the image: the process of defining a formal scheme and its significance in the late-ancient social and religious context, both closely related issues. The hypothesis that
arises is that the dancer act out as an evocation of the young nubile at the gates of marriage.

Author Biography

  • Eva Subias Pascual, Universitat Rovira i Virgili

    Eva Subias Pascual PhD in History (University of Barcelona, UB), since 1991. Currently is lecturer at the URV, conducting different lines of research on the art and architecture of the Greco-Roman world. She have worked as an archaeologist in different sites from Spain, Italy and Egypt and have obtained several research pre and postdoc scholarships abroad. Member of the Catalan Mission in Oxyrrhyncos (Egypt) between 1992 and 2010 she has developed various lines of research in relation to the city, architecture and
    artistic productions from Egypt. In parallel, he has worked on the problem of late-ancient settlements in Hispania from the project the visigothic Castrum of Puig Rom (Roses, Girona).

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Published

2021-01-14

Issue

Vol. 10 (2020)

Section

Saggi

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How to Cite

Sobre la danza con crótalos en el egipto tardoantiguo. (2021). Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, 10, 57. https://doi.org/10.6092/2240-5380/10.2020.57