Memento: Remembering Roman Lives
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The intention of the exhibition Memento: Remembering Roman Lives is exactly that—to
remember the people named on these funeral inscriptions. The memorials name sailors from
Egypt, Dalmatia and Thrace serving in the Imperial Fleet based at Misenum on the Bay of
Naples and their wives; a slave from the Imperial household in Rome; a wrestler from
Amastris on the Black Sea; freedmen, freedwomen and their patrons; husbands and wives,
brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, as well as foster children (their age at death given
with precision down to the last hour).The intention of the exhibition Memento: Remembering Roman Lives is exactly that—to
remember the people named on these funeral inscriptions. The memorials name sailors from
Egypt, Dalmatia and Thrace serving in the Imperial Fleet based at Misenum on the Bay of
Naples and their wives; a slave from the Imperial household in Rome; a wrestler from
Amastris on the Black Sea; freedmen, freedwomen and their patrons; husbands and wives,
brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, as well as foster children (their age at death given
with precision down to the last hour).
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Date
2015Source title
Memento: Remembering Roman LivesPublisher
Sydney University MuseumsLicence
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0Rights statement
Published in conjunction with the exhibition Memento: Remembering Roman Lives, Nicholson Museum, Sydney University Museums, 26 October 2015 – ongoing.Faculty/School
University MuseumsDepartment, Discipline or Centre
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