Dr Camilla Norman visited the The Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion on 13th June 2019, to give a paper entitled “The Ritual Ecology of Archaic South-East Italy”. After the seminar, Jessica Hughes and Camilla Norman were joined by Professor Phil Perkins and Dr Eleanor Betts to record an audio discussion about ritual and gender in pre-Roman Italy. The discussion also featured the voice of Frances Eley, who spoke about her experiences of performing sacred drama with a women’s group in Kent.

Programme structure and timecodes

0.00 Intro

0.36 Camilla Norman on the statue stelae from the south Italian region of Daunia (northern Apulia and north-east Basilicata).

6.41 Phil Perkins on the literary and archaeological evidence for ritual gender in Etruria.

15.50 Camilla Norman and Phil Perkins on the representation of attributes indicating gender, age and social status in Daunia and Etruria.

19.29 Eleanor Betts on Picenum and the cult of the goddess Cubrar Matrer.

24.16 Frances Eley on performing sacred drama with a women's group in the contemporary UK.

29.55 Responses to Frances Eley.

35.16 Phil Perkins on a bronze female figurine from Monte Falterona

40.54 Eleanor Betts on the large bronze rings found in male and female burials in Picenum.

43.35 Camilla Norman on a Daunian matt-painted pot featuring a possible female augur.

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