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
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:
On 30th October 2015, AshLI brought together Classicists from Oxford and Warwick Universities to stage a Roman funeral procession as part of the Ashmolean Museum’s DEADFriday event. A cast of twenty, in full costume, including lictors, musicians, mourners,…
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:
Of the four hundred inscriptions studied by the Ashmolean Latin Inscriptions team, none has proved more slippery than a little thanks-offering set up to Flora, the Roman goddess of fruit and flowers. AshLI has been following the trail of the…
Secondary teachers of Classical subjects (Classical Civilization, Ancient History, Latin and Ancient Greek) who would like to use more ancient artefacts in their teaching, are warmly invited to a training day at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford on 22nd…