Professor Alison Cooley and Dr Jane Masséglia, from the Ashmolean Latin Inscriptions Project, take a closer look at some of the brickstamps in the museum’s collection, including the snazzy personal logo of a man named Lupus:
Category: Roman Trade
She Built Rome: A Different Kind of Imperial Woman
‘When Agrippina reviled him [the emperor Tiberius], he had her flogged by a centurion, causing her to lose an eye. When she resolved to starve herself to death, he had her forcibly fed, and when through pure determination she succeeded…
When is a Roman not a Roman? International relations on Duty Free Delos
A bilingual inscription from Delos. Ashmolean Museum ANMichaelis.209. (H. 0.84cm. Diam. 0.70cm) Duty Free Delos In the second century BC, the little Greek island of Delos in the Cyclades experienced an unexpected boom, as it became the place to…