ABSTRACT
This chapter continues the discussion of presence but focuses more closely on media of presence, the various materials, and substances that were thought to hold the powers and presences of supernatural beings. It addresses three groups of materials as media of presence: objects from everyday life (rings and seals), dedicated objects (rings/seals, hair, votary portraits), and items employed in magical rites (figurines, ousia, katadesmoi, visual historiolae). Taken together, this chapter also utilizes these bodies of evidence to theorize mortal presences and how they were materially experienced.
