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Voices, Books, and Dreams:
The Diversification of Divination Media in Late Antique Egypt
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This paper will discuss the ticket oracles, incubation oracles, and book oracles that developed around two major oracle centers in late antique Egypt: the Bes-shrine at Abydos (I-IV CE) and the Colluthus shrine at Antinoe (IV-?? CE). The promulgation of such diverse media from the same shrines suggests that tradition and authority played a larger part in divination and its popular appeal than has usually been assumed, and that "centers" retained their importance, even while shifting under religious change.
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