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:
Hear Prof. Alison Cooley and Dr Jane Masséglia in conversation about the Ashmolean Museum’s extraordinary collection of Gold Glass, and about the symbols, texts and community spirit of the early Christians under the Roman Empire. Wishing you all a…
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,…
The 6th International conference of the Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy (EAGLE) was held on 24th-25th September 2015 in Bari. The overarching title of the conference was ‘Off the Beaten Track. Epigraphy at the Borders’, and delegates…
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…
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:
‘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…
In 41/40 BC, the Romans were at war – with one another. At the town of Perusia, forces loyal to Mark Antony found themselves besieged by the troops of Octavian, the young man who went on to become the Emperor…