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    Laid Out for Posterity: A Roman Tombstone Carved with a Child's Portrait and His Poem

    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 Greek epigrams on a surface just over five feet high and three and a half feet wide.

    Free admission. Open to the public.

    For more information, please contact Nika Trufanova at 617-495-4544 or veronika_trufanova@harvard.edu.

    The M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Fund was established through the generosity of the wife, children, and friends of the late M. Victor Leventritt, Harvard Class of 1935. The purpose of the fund is to present outstanding scholars of the history and theory of art to the Harvard and Greater Boston communities.


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        Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum

        485 Broadway
        Cambridge, MA 02138

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        Free.

        Info Phone: 617-495-4544

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        September 23, 2010

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        6:00pm-7:00pm

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