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:
In October 2015, the AshLI Project had great fun staging a Roman funeral in the Ashmolean Museum as part it’s DEADFriday event. You can see the video here. As our corpse, we chose Tiberius Claudius Abascantianus, a name familiar to…
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,…
In preparation for our staging of a Roman funeral at the Ashmolean Museum’s DEADFriday event on 30th October, we’ve been trying our hand at making imagines – the ancestor portraits of elite Roman families which they displayed in their homes…