2022-04-21 15:41:35
Today is #InscriptaeStories!⠀
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Let's go back to the professional and artisanal working world of the Roman era with another testimony from the Lapidary Gallery: a marble bas-relief that belonged to the tomb of the Antestii, freedmen or former slaves, perhaps linked by family ties. ⠀
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Two men, of whom the first is older, are "photographed" frontally on either side of a woman, and a third is only mentioned alongside the portraits. This time there is no mention in the text of the work they carried out in life because the images speak for themselves, carved on the left and thus generally interpreted: spoon (or pin), tongs, anvil, welding torch, vase. They are tools for the workmanship and production of metal objects, perhaps bronze or copper. ⠀
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They are the symbols of the craftsmanship of a family belonging to that working class, intermediate between the holders of power and the lower classes, which at the end of the 1st century BC - early 1st century AD, acquired a greater economic and social role and wished to flaunt it.⠀
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