Author: AshLI

Two new Rider Reliefs in the Ashmolean – Podcast 8

At the end of 2015, the Ashmolean Latin Inscriptions Project unveiled the first of its new installations, with a pair of Roman Rider Reliefs, now on show in the Rome Gallery.

Two recently-installed tombstones in the Ashmolean Rome Gallery: ANMichaelis.214 and AN1947.285

Two recently-installed tombstones in the Ashmolean Rome Gallery: ANMichaelis.214 and AN1947.285

 

Here you can listen to Prof. Alison Cooley speaking with Dr Jane Masséglia about the two stones, the people they commemorate, and about the little surprise hidden in one of the inscriptions:

 

Freedmen and Friends – Podcast 5

Hear Prof. Alison Cooley and Dr Hannah Cornwell from the AshLI Project, talking about a tombstone which marked the plot of an entire Roman familia: spouses, freedmen and good friends, all together in the same burial: