Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei (Budapest, 2007)

ANNUAL REPORT - A 2007. ÉV - MARIANNA DAGI: Highlighted Works of Art: Chamber Exhibitions Organized by the Collection of Classical Antiquities

who rests in Maat". Thoth was among other things the knower and defender of justice, and also, like the Greek god Hermes, the ambassador of the gods and the one who guided the dead to the underworld. Next to the relief in the showcase stood four terracotta statues. Two of them showed Thoth in his traditional Egyptian form as a baboon; the other two as Hermes, who was identified with the Egyptian god after Alexander's conquest ofthat country in 332 BC. They represent him in the traditional Graeco-Roman way: as a youth holding the kerykeion and the follis. On his head, he also wears one attribute of his Egyptian counterpart: the feather of Maat which symbolises justice. The winter exhibition thus reflects the meeting of Egyptian and Graeco-Roman religion and art. The objects on display also called attention to the fact that the "globalisation" of the Mediterranean world in the Hellenistic and Roman periods not only involved the spread of the conquering cultures, but also respected the cultural and religious traditions of the conquered, and facilitated favourable conditions for encounters and mutual influence. The scholarly plans for the 2007 exhibitions were the work of Árpád Miklós Nagy (Spring: 2 April - 27 May), Judit Lebegyev (Summer: 5 June - 26 August), János György Szilágyi (Autumn: 4 September - 25 November) and Kata Endreffy (Winter: 4 December - 24 February), who also wrote the accompanying texts. The photographs on the leaflets were taken by László Mátyus, and the graphic design was by Johanna Bárd. The curator of the series is Marianna Dági. The complete texts (in Hungarian and English) and photographs of the exhibitions are available in the archive on the Collection of Classical Antiquities webpage (www.mfab/Classics, s.v. Mnemosyne). Marianna Dági