Tag: tattoo

• Tattoo Taboo? Exploring The History Of Religious Ink And Facial Tattoos

  

  Over on my Forbes blog, I explore the history of religious tattoos. This post stems from my interest in the use of various stigmas–legal, social, and even corporal–against marginalized individuals. Tattoos in Greco-Roman antiquity were often linked to servility, but could also advertise one’s religious convictions. I spoke with tattoo historian Anna Felicity Friedman about pilgrimage tattoos in […]

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  September 9, 2016

  Art and Graphics, color, epigraphy, Forbes, text, Uncategorized

  constantine, coptic, Early Christianity, epigraphy, Late Antiquity, manichaeans, roman law, tattoo