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Freedmen and Friends

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Reading, Writing, Romans
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A funerary inscription reveals questions of social status and friendship in the Roman world.
Prof. Alison Cooley and Dr Hannah Cornwell from the AshLI Project, talk about a tombstone which marked the plot of an entire Roman familia: spouses, freedmen and good friends, all together in the same burial, and consider questions of social status in the Roman world.

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Reading, Writing, Romans
People
Alison Cooley
Hannah Cornwell
Keywords
roman
inscription
freedmen
slaves
friends
funerary
Department: Ashmolean Museum
Date Added: 27/07/2015
Duration: 00:02:51

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