{"id":9737,"date":"2019-01-16T15:25:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T15:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=9737"},"modified":"2019-03-26T17:50:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T17:50:12","slug":"david-walsh-on-supposed-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/01\/16\/david-walsh-on-supposed-churches\/","title":{"rendered":"David Walsh on identifying another temple to Mithras in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/staff\/walsh.html\">Dr David Walsh<\/a>, Lecturer in the Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological studies, has published a <a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/714567\">new article<\/a> in the <em>Journal of Late Antiquity<\/em>, in which he argues that the remains of one of what was believed to be one of the oldest churches in Britain was, in fact, a temple to Mithras.<\/p>\n<p>In recent decades, archaeologists in regions such as Germany, Italy, and France have developed an increasingly robust approach to the identification of early churches and thus dismissed a number of formerly misidentified examples in the process. In Britain, however, various supposed &#8220;churches&#8221; discovered in the twentieth century continue to be referred to as such despite a lack of strong evidence to substantiate this. One such example is a structure found at Butt Road, Colchester. In this article, the issues surrounding the interpretation of this building as a church are revisited and enhanced, while it is illustrated why other interpretations, such as a &#8220;pagan funerary banqueting hall,&#8221; are also unlikely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr David Walsh, Lecturer in the Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological studies, has published a new article in the Journal of Late Antiquity, in which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/01\/16\/david-walsh-on-supposed-churches\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":10069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18564,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9737"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10178,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9737\/revisions\/10178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}