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Laid Out for Posterity: A Roman Tombstone Carved with a Child's Portrait and His Poem
Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
September 23, 2010
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Kathleen Coleman, Professor of Latin, Harvard University
An elaborate funerary altar of Parian marble was discovered immured inside the Aurelian Wall in Rome in 1871. It commemorates Q. Sulpicius Maximus, who died in AD 94 at the age of 11. This lecture will explore the technical and aesthetic challenges facing the masons’ workshop in incorporating a statue, a 43-line Greek poem, a Latin epitaph, and two 10-line...
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
485 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02138
Admission Info:
Free.
General Day and Time Info:
6:00pm-7:00pm
Phone: 617-495-4544
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