Funerary evidence for women’s dress and identities in Campania and Lucania in the 4th century BC

The lecture, the Accordia Aniversary Lecture, will be given in person and is entitled Funerary evidence for women’s dress and identities in Campania and Lucania in the 4th century BC. All are welome.

Abstract

This paper focuses on funerary portraits in elite painted tombs in Campania and Lucania at a time when Rome was extending its control in the region in the fourth century B.C. In these images, men and women appear in roles that reflect indigenous social norms of the time, and the clothing they wear is a valuable tool for exploring the interconnected relationship between ethnicity, social status, and gender. Female clothing types are particularly distinctive and varied, and they reveal that self-perception in south-west Italy was based on belonging to individual, local communities rather than on membership in large, overarching ethnic groups constructed by Greek and Roman authors.

This is a joint lecture with the Institute of Classical Studies and will be held in Room G35 Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1.

For any enquiries about the Accordia Lectures on Italy 2023-24 series, please contact Prof Ruth Whitehouse (accresearch20@gmail.com). 

Programme | Accordia Lectures on Italy 2023-24

• 17 October 2023: When Votives encounter Bronze: the Etruscan and Roman sanctuary of Bagno Grande at San Casciano dei Bagni - Jacopo Tabolli, University for Foreigners, Siena
• 7 November 2023: The sacred hill: investigation at the protohistoric site of Dos dell’Arca in Valle Camonica, Italy - Paolo Rondini, University of Pavia
• 5 December 2023: Funerary evidence for women’s dress and identities in Campania and Lucania in the 4th century BC - Maureen Carroll, University of York
• 23 January 2024: For the Sake of a Shared Memory: trends of collecting antiquities in Lucca between the 19th and 20th centuries - Elena Pontelli, University of Lucca
• 13 February 2024: Warrior burials from Chalcolithic Italy: a new interpretation - Andrea Dolfini, University of Newcastle
• 5 March 2024: Returning to the François Tomb - Luca Cerchiai, University of the Salento
• 7 May 2024: A geoarchaeological approach to late prehistoric domestic contexts in northern Italy - Cristiano Nicosia, University of Padua

The Accordia lecture series is jointly sponsored by the Institute of Classical Studies (Institute of Advanced Study, University of London) and the UCL Institute of Archaeology.