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,…
Tag: Freedmen
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:
On the Feast of Saturnalia, my master gave to me…
A Roman Slave’s Carol As the shortest day of the year drew near, the Romans crossed their fingers for a kind winter and people from all walks of life made a break in their usual routine to honour the harvest…
‘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…