Rethinking personal piety –
from single events to personal religious profiles
By Prof. Andreas Dorn, Uppsala University

The Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool is delighted to invite you to attend.
The study of personal piety has traditionally been based on the analysis of one object, in general a stela with a text commemorating an extraordinary event as the cause combined with the depiction of a person’s interaction with a god or goddess or just of a god or goddess.
In this lecture the author proposes to think about personal piety differently, not anymore as a single case driven phenomenon:
All of a person’s religious objects and expressions are considered to define a person’s religious profile as part of their religious practices in the polytheistic belief system of ancient Egypt.

Thursday 19 March 2026 at 5:15pm
University of Liverpool, 502 Teaching Hub, Lecture Theatre 3
This venue is Building 502 (D6) on the campus map:

After the lecture, there will be a drinks reception open to all those attending: please sign-up on Ticketsource in order that we can plan for catering.