The subject of the session is the interactive communication of Romans and Barbarians in the provinces of the Imperium Romanum. Do the Barbarians preserve items of their own cultural identity, either in religious or sepulchral practise, or in the material remains found in military and civil contexts? In how far are the images, documented on mosaics and in wall painting, a medium to manifest the construction of ethnic identities? In which way does the Interpretatio Romana lead to religious innovations in the different provinces?

1. Renate Thomas (Römisch-Germanisches Museum der Stadt Köln)

Römische Wandmalerei als Medium der Identitätsfindung im Zentrum und in den Provinzen

2. Ben Russell (St John’s College, Oxford)

Sarcophagi in Roman Britain

3. Peter Halkon (Department of History University of Hull)

Britons and Romans in an East Yorkshire Landscape, UK

4. Philip L. Tite (Independent researcher)

‘Reading’ and ‘Re-Reading’ the Frampton Mosaics: Religious Innovation and the Construction of Cultural Identity in Roman Britain

5. Leonhard Schumacher (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Institut für Alte Geschichte)

Die fast perfekte Romanisierung des “Barbaren”