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,…
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(Re)visiting an old friend from Hadrian’s Wall – Podcast 2
Back in early September, AshLI challenged Twitter followers of @AshmoleanLatin to read a tiny bronze plaque in the Ashmolean Collection. By the end of the day, we were really getting somewhere: After some clever sleuthing from classics-lovers and amateur epigraphers,…
‘He lived 5 years, 2 months, 6 days, 6 hours’ – The Roman child-slave and the woman who loved him
In 1667, Henry Howard, grandson of Thomas Howard 2nd Earl of Arundel, presented Oxford University with a collection of inscriptions which today belong to the Ashmolean Museum. Among the collection is ANChandler.3.90, a badly worn marble tombstone from Rome. While…
Now you see it, now you don’t: a disappearing text from Roman Chester
Ashmolean ANChandler3.1. Red Sandstone Altar from Chester (H. 0.97, W. 0.45, D. 0.43). AD 154. Looking Blank On display in the Ashmolean’s Ark to Ashmolean gallery stands a red sandstone altar. On three of its sides there are relief…
Classics in Communities
The Latin Inscription Project will be taking part the conference “Classics in Communities” on 30th November at Corpus Christi College in Oxford. We’re pleased to be represented among the other UK institutions, projects and practitioners working to increase the opportunities…
The Latin Inscription Project Goes Live!
A new project to redisplay and re catalogue the Latin Inscriptions at the Ashmolean Museum began in Autumn 2013. Over the next 3 years, the project will focus on making Latin inscriptions accessible to a wide audience, from school children…