Facilitating Access to Latin inscriptions in Britain's Oldest Public Museum through Scholarship and Technology
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Warwick
Department Name: Classics & Ancient History
Abstract
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford owns around 300 Latin inscriptions, which it has accumulated over the centuries since 1683. The core of the collection consists of the Arundel marbles, but the museum has made further acquisitions since the seventeenth century, most recently of inscriptions from the estate of the late Sir Howard Colvin. The main publication of the collection is that of Chandler (1763), who included the 134 inscriptions then owned by the museum. No modern edition of the collection exists. No photographic record of the inscriptions has ever been published. The inscriptions originate from Britain and other parts of the Roman world and date from the late Republic down to mediaeval times. The collection includes a wide range of types of inscriptions: many are monumental inscriptions such as epitaphs, religious dedications, and commemorative building-inscriptions, but many more are inscribed upon everyday objects, including pewterware, pottery, and even a set of panpipes. None of the inscriptions on its own is of any especial historical consequence, but together they offer insights into the Roman world, its commemorative habits, social hierarchy, economic networks, and uses of literacy. Specifically too, the place of the frontier province of Britain within the cultural, social, religious, and economic networks of the wider Roman empire can be illustrated by the inscriptions found there.
Despite the fact that they offer a direct line of communication with the ancient world, Latin inscriptions seem inaccessible and incomprehensible to the general public. This project aims to create an online corpus and critical edition of the museum's collection of inscriptions for a scholarly readership, and then to use this as a springboard for further online resources and interactive activities, and to incorporate more Latin inscriptions into the museum's displays in order to open up this type of first-hand source material to as wide an audience as possible. It will show how Latin inscriptions can illuminate the society, economy, and religion of the past, and will explore the ways in which Latin continued to be used in Britain even after the end of 'Roman Britain'.
As well as containing a research core relating to Roman history and to the history of collections and museums, this project will make a valuable contribution to understanding better how digital resources can be embedded into different contexts peopled by professional scholars, students, teachers, schoolchildren, & museum-visitors. The AHRC has been at the forefront of funding innovative digital epigraphic projects, such as Inscriptions of Aphrodisias & MAMA XI, and of supporting new imaging techniques via the project e-Science and Ancient Documents. These projects have clearly demonstrated the advantages of publication in EpiDoc XML, but we wish to explore this potential further in several ways: by exploring the integration of an EpiDoc corpus into a Museum's cataloguing system; by discovering how it can be used to enhance current displays within the Museum; by seeing how the XML can be used to produce teaching resources for use by institutions elsewhere. In particular, it will seek to put into practice the potential in EpiDoc to produce resources suitable for the visually impaired.
Several audiences will be the potential beneficiaries of this project. Visitors to the museum will be able to engage more easily with the Latin inscriptions on display; interactive activities will target schoolchildren. Schools will be able to use new online resources in the Education Centre during their visits to the museum and to engage in follow-up activities afterwards. Students and scholars will be able to access the electronic EpiDoc corpus of the inscriptions. By publishing an electronic corpus, the museum's collection will be made accessible to a worldwide audience, and it will be possible to integrate its data into the existing major online databases of Latin inscriptions.
Despite the fact that they offer a direct line of communication with the ancient world, Latin inscriptions seem inaccessible and incomprehensible to the general public. This project aims to create an online corpus and critical edition of the museum's collection of inscriptions for a scholarly readership, and then to use this as a springboard for further online resources and interactive activities, and to incorporate more Latin inscriptions into the museum's displays in order to open up this type of first-hand source material to as wide an audience as possible. It will show how Latin inscriptions can illuminate the society, economy, and religion of the past, and will explore the ways in which Latin continued to be used in Britain even after the end of 'Roman Britain'.
As well as containing a research core relating to Roman history and to the history of collections and museums, this project will make a valuable contribution to understanding better how digital resources can be embedded into different contexts peopled by professional scholars, students, teachers, schoolchildren, & museum-visitors. The AHRC has been at the forefront of funding innovative digital epigraphic projects, such as Inscriptions of Aphrodisias & MAMA XI, and of supporting new imaging techniques via the project e-Science and Ancient Documents. These projects have clearly demonstrated the advantages of publication in EpiDoc XML, but we wish to explore this potential further in several ways: by exploring the integration of an EpiDoc corpus into a Museum's cataloguing system; by discovering how it can be used to enhance current displays within the Museum; by seeing how the XML can be used to produce teaching resources for use by institutions elsewhere. In particular, it will seek to put into practice the potential in EpiDoc to produce resources suitable for the visually impaired.
Several audiences will be the potential beneficiaries of this project. Visitors to the museum will be able to engage more easily with the Latin inscriptions on display; interactive activities will target schoolchildren. Schools will be able to use new online resources in the Education Centre during their visits to the museum and to engage in follow-up activities afterwards. Students and scholars will be able to access the electronic EpiDoc corpus of the inscriptions. By publishing an electronic corpus, the museum's collection will be made accessible to a worldwide audience, and it will be possible to integrate its data into the existing major online databases of Latin inscriptions.
Planned Impact
The impact of this project beyond academia is potentially huge, involving the museum-visiting public resident in the UK, foreign visitors, schoolchildren, and students. The Ashmolean Museum itself will of course benefit from engaging a wide audience in another element of its extensive collections. Exploring new ways of displaying Latin inscriptions and engaging museum visitors actively in viewing them and appreciating their importance for our understanding of the Roman world will also make a significant contribution to ongoing discussions of how museums should display such material (cf. SEBarc (2009) on Museographia epigraphica).
The incorporation of more Latin inscriptions into various spaces within the museum will widen accessibility to Latin epigraphy for the thousands who visit the museum each year. We intend to display roughly forty additional inscriptions within existing gallery spaces relating to the themes of Reading and Writing, Human Image, and Rome, as well as the Randolph Gallery illustrating the Arundel collection. Interactive activities will be designed to engage more of the visitors, especially children, in the inscriptions on display. Some of these activities will be high-tech, allowing visitors to view inscriptions via reflectance transformation imaging, whilst others will be low-tech thematic trails around the galleries for younger visitors. We also aim to realise the potential of EpiDoc for creating resources suitable for the visually impaired, something which no other project has yet put into practice. Extending the existing Online Collections website to include the museum's Latin inscriptions will allow visitors to the museum to find out more after their visit, as well as making the inscriptions available to anyone else who wishes to investigate the collection of Latin inscriptions without actually travelling to Oxford. Inscriptions offer a unique perspective into the ancient world, as both texts and objects with a voice. This impact would take immediate effect following the project's completion.
Thousands of schoolchildren visit the museum each year: the outputs will enrich their studies of the Roman world and extend their appreciation of another culture and society. Looking at Latin inscriptions will introduce them to an alien culture, focusing on themes such as slavery, non-nuclear family structures, and ancient religious practices. The gallery and online resources could also have a significant outreach impact, in introducing to the Latin language children who do not learn it at school. This will enable them to develop an appreciation of how language shapes a society: on a simple level, for example, they could consider why tombstones commonly evoked the spirits of the dead (di manes), and how that might differ from today's practices. For KS1 pupils, the project will fulfil the National Curriculum aim that 'They learn how the past is different from the present'. It will also facilitate engagement in Historical Enquiry of 'how to find out about the past from a range of sources of information' by showing them how material objects can offer insight into the Roman world. For KS2 pupils, the inscriptions could play a part in investigating the Romans in Britain. The collection of Latin inscriptions would also be of direct use to pupils studying for OCR GCSE Classical Civilisation and Ancient History, opting for the Roman Britain module (Unit A354 Option 6) and for A level Ancient History (A2 Unit CC7 (Entry Code F387): Roman Britain: life in the outpost of the Empire and AS Unit CC6 (Entry Code F386): City Life in Roman Italy). For example, some of these inscriptions illuminate the presence of the Roman army in Britain; others could be used to explore towns and villas in Roman Britain. The project will also facilitate pupils in exploring 'the definition of social identity through public buildings and inscriptions in public places'. This impact would take immediate effect following the project's completion.
The incorporation of more Latin inscriptions into various spaces within the museum will widen accessibility to Latin epigraphy for the thousands who visit the museum each year. We intend to display roughly forty additional inscriptions within existing gallery spaces relating to the themes of Reading and Writing, Human Image, and Rome, as well as the Randolph Gallery illustrating the Arundel collection. Interactive activities will be designed to engage more of the visitors, especially children, in the inscriptions on display. Some of these activities will be high-tech, allowing visitors to view inscriptions via reflectance transformation imaging, whilst others will be low-tech thematic trails around the galleries for younger visitors. We also aim to realise the potential of EpiDoc for creating resources suitable for the visually impaired, something which no other project has yet put into practice. Extending the existing Online Collections website to include the museum's Latin inscriptions will allow visitors to the museum to find out more after their visit, as well as making the inscriptions available to anyone else who wishes to investigate the collection of Latin inscriptions without actually travelling to Oxford. Inscriptions offer a unique perspective into the ancient world, as both texts and objects with a voice. This impact would take immediate effect following the project's completion.
Thousands of schoolchildren visit the museum each year: the outputs will enrich their studies of the Roman world and extend their appreciation of another culture and society. Looking at Latin inscriptions will introduce them to an alien culture, focusing on themes such as slavery, non-nuclear family structures, and ancient religious practices. The gallery and online resources could also have a significant outreach impact, in introducing to the Latin language children who do not learn it at school. This will enable them to develop an appreciation of how language shapes a society: on a simple level, for example, they could consider why tombstones commonly evoked the spirits of the dead (di manes), and how that might differ from today's practices. For KS1 pupils, the project will fulfil the National Curriculum aim that 'They learn how the past is different from the present'. It will also facilitate engagement in Historical Enquiry of 'how to find out about the past from a range of sources of information' by showing them how material objects can offer insight into the Roman world. For KS2 pupils, the inscriptions could play a part in investigating the Romans in Britain. The collection of Latin inscriptions would also be of direct use to pupils studying for OCR GCSE Classical Civilisation and Ancient History, opting for the Roman Britain module (Unit A354 Option 6) and for A level Ancient History (A2 Unit CC7 (Entry Code F387): Roman Britain: life in the outpost of the Empire and AS Unit CC6 (Entry Code F386): City Life in Roman Italy). For example, some of these inscriptions illuminate the presence of the Roman army in Britain; others could be used to explore towns and villas in Roman Britain. The project will also facilitate pupils in exploring 'the definition of social identity through public buildings and inscriptions in public places'. This impact would take immediate effect following the project's completion.
Publications
Masséglia J
(2016)
Rome's Walking Dead: Resurrecting a Roman Funeral at the Ashmolean Museum
in Journal of Classics Teaching
Masseglia, J.
(2014)
Leaving No Stone Unturned
in Journal of Classics Teaching
Masseglia, J
(2016)
'The lost boys: did the Romans love their children', in Omnibus
Cooley, A.
(2018)
Latin Inscriptions in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik
Cooley, A.
(2016)
How the Great Fire revealed London's Roman past
Cooley A. E.
(2019)
From Document to History. Epigraphic Insights into the Greco-Roman World
Cooley A
(2018)
Monumental Latin Inscriptions from Roman Britain in the Ashmolean Museum Collection
in Britannia
Title | Gallery installations, Ashmolean Museum |
Description | Installation of Latin inscriptions into the following galleries in the Ashmolean: Rome; Randolph; Reading & Writing; Mediterranean |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2015 |
Impact | Installation of Latin inscriptions has enriched educational possibilities of the displays in the museum, and have been actively promoted via the project's programmes of teacher-training sessions, and via public tours and lectures in the museum. |
Description | Have now fully catalogued the Ashmolean Museum's collection of Latin inscriptions - publishing some new inscriptions, re-reading and re-interpreting some already known inscriptions, and presenting other inscriptions in full modern edition. |
Exploitation Route | Will be used by the museum in future. |
Sectors | Education,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
Description | • An enhanced appreciation among members of the public visiting the museum of the potential contribution of Latin inscriptions to understanding Roman culture and society • Ashmolean Museum gallery displays now include an enriched contribution from Latin inscriptions - Randolph Gallery; Reading & Writing Gallery; Rome Gallery; Mediterranean Gallery • More teachers incorporating use of Latin inscriptions into their teaching at both primary and secondary levels, and bringing classes to the museum. This is important in encouraging source-based approaches to ancient history, and in encouraging school pupils to engage in Latin language. • New resources available for schools to use on visits to the Museum: the Ashmolean did not previously offer support for Roman-themed visits. Ashmolean Education Dept able to offer new Roman-focused activities for schools bringing pupils to the museum • One significant impact for the Ashmolean Marketing team, which we did not anticipate, is that professional photographs of our events are now available to the museum for marketing What's On? events for the future. • Workshops for museum curators in May 2017: we anticipate that this will create the opportunity for the exchange of ideas among UK and European museum professionals about how best to engage the public with Latin inscriptions • Some economic impact for the museum in raising income in connection with public events in which we have participated |
First Year Of Impact | 2014 |
Sector | Education,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Economic |
Description | Follow-on Funding |
Amount | £81,115 (GBP) |
Funding ID | AH/P005764/1 |
Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2017 |
End | 12/2017 |
Title | AshLI Online Catalogue |
Description | Scholarly edition of Ashmolean's collection of Latin inscriptions, endoded with EpiDoc. Also includes worksheets for schools. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | New scholarly edition of Ashmolean's collection of Latin inscriptions. Informs the museum what is in its collection. Makes available searchable research catalogue online. |
URL | http://latininscriptions.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/ |
Description | Ashmolean Collaboration |
Organisation | University of Oxford |
Department | Ashmolean Museum |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Redesigned parts of the following galleries in the Ashmolean Museum: Reading and Writing; Randolph; Mediterranean; Rome. Organised and collaborated with public engagement events. Designed schools activities. Delivered public lectures and gallery-talks. |
Collaborator Contribution | Antiquities Dept gave us access to materials and study space. Design Team advised on gallery redesigns. Education Team supported in delivering activities for schools. |
Impact | Gallery redesigns. Worksheets and teaching sessions for schools. |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | EAGLE |
Organisation | Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy |
Country | Italy |
Sector | Learned Society |
PI Contribution | Contributing EpiDoc data for incorporating into international digital network. |
Collaborator Contribution | Incorporating our data into international digital project. |
Impact | No outcomes as yet. |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | 6th Form Classics Study Day at Ashmolean |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Lecture & workshops presented by Jane Masseglia & Hannah Cornwell - postdoc RFs on the project. 8th Oct 2015. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Ashmolean DEADFriday event, Oxford |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The Dead Friday event overall attracted 4,865 visitors. Our Roman funeral event was publicised on BBC Radio Oxford, Breakfast Show on the morning of the 30th Oct 2015, with interviews with Sarah Doherty (Ashmolean), and Alison Cooley (PI). Our event was then reported on BBC News online for BBC Radio Oxford on 31 Oct. Members of the public commissioned our 'scribes' to write out 500 columbarium plaques after viewing the procession (held twice). This meant that the public engaged with the structure of Latin inscriptions, and thought about Roman naming patterns, since they chose their own personalised names from our lists of suggested names. Several events were presented within the DeadFriday framework - Roman Funeral (organised by project RF Jane Masseglia and Hannah Cornwell) - 500 visitors; Abascantianus Talk by project PI Alison Cooley - 50 visitors; 'Roman Art of Dying' Lecture by project Co-I Paul Roberts - 150 visitors; Funerary Scribe service - 500 visitors. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Ashmolean Sixth Form Study Day |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Ashmolean Sixth Form Study Day 8th October 2015, opening lecture 'The unfamiliar familia' by project RF Jane Masseglia - 83 students and teachers, from 14 different schools, and 1 Home-Educated. Gallery Session by project RF Hannah Cornwell, 'Diversity of culture in the Roman World' - 30 students. Both sessions stimulated interest in studying Classics at University. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Ashmolean Volunteers Hand-Over Tour |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Ashmolean Volunteers Hand-Over Tour by project RF Jane Masseglia, 7th December 2015, guided tour of new installations and gallery best-of selection to Education team and Ashmolean Volunteers - 20 colleagues and volunteers. This event was intended to embed our project's outcomes in terms of educational resources and new gallery installations within the museum institutionally by training the professional Education staff and volunteers in the materials now available for visitors to the museum. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Association for Reform of Latin Teaching (ARLT) Inset Day (Sollihull School) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | 'Meeting the Romans in Oxford: the Ashmolean Latin Inscriptions Project': lecture for secondary school teachers. Audience questionnaires indicated intention to engage with the teaching resources produced by the project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | BSL Signed Tours for Deaf Visitors, Ashmolean |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | BSL Signed Tours for Deaf Visitors, Ashmolean by project RF Jane Masseglia. 14th August 2015, Latin Inscription selection from Randolph and Rome Galleries - 15 visitors. Feedback (via Jude Barratt at Ashmolean): "I didn't have formal feedback forms, but the overwhelming response was that it was very interesting, and so good to have someone show them where to look for these inscriptions. They were very interested in the information you gave out about what's online and many intend to follow that up and look at that information. The interpreters really enjoyed the session too, they both said how fascinating it was to hear about the stories of the individual people." |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Documentary - Perusine slingshot |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Interviewed on Bettany Hughes' Channel 5 docu-drama 'Eight Days that Made Rome' - filmed in April, broadcast in November 2017. Presented new research on the Perusine sling bullets in the Ashmolean Museum, as a means of understanding the emotional impact of fighting in the Roman civil wars. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Gallery tours, Ashmolean Museum |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Festival of Archaeology, Inscriptions Tours at Ashmolean by project RF Jane Masseglia,12th July 2015, 'Roman Around the Randolph' and 'Roman History writ small' - 30 visitors. Ashmolean invited the project to participate in Festival of Archaeology for future years. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Handling sessions for Oxford Alumni Weekend |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Handling sessions for Oxford Alumni Weekend by project RF Hannah Cornwell, 19th-21st September 2015 - 50 visitors |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | JACT Inset for Secondary Teachers |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | 'Teaching with Ancient Artefacts' - 38 secondary teachers from around UK attended training in epigraphy, art, and numismatics, run by Warwick staff in collaboration with the Ashmolean Museum. It was intended to encourage teachers to incorporate more material culture into their teaching. Teachers reported now having the confidence to incorporate new materials into their teaching. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Outreach Lecture - 'Stories from Stones' (Ashmolean) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Outreach Lecture - 'Stories from Stones' by project RF Hannah Cornwell, 4th September 2015, Newnham Collegiate Sixth Form at Said Business School - 125 Year 12 students. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Oxford Classics Outreach Epigraphy Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Oxford Classics Outreach Epigraphy Workshop by project RF Jane Masseglia, 15th October 2015, 'A New Name for a New Life', Edgbaston High - 25 students. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Oxford Preservation Trust Open Doors Event - poster display, Classics Centre, Oxford |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Oxford Preservation Trust Open Doors Event by project RF Jane Masseglia, 12th September 2015, AshLI Project poster in Ioannou Atrium |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | PGCE Inset Workshop (Ashmolean Museum Oxford) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | PGCE INSET for students from KCL and Cambridge. Participants recorded on questionnaires increased knowledge of Latin inscriptions & ideas about how to incorporate inscriptions into teaching. Also an increased awareness of the advantages of bringing school children to the museum. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | PGCE training day in Latin inscriptions at the Ashmolean |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Training day for PGCE cohorts in secondary Classics from KCL and Cambridge. c. 30 trainee teachers given training in using I-pads in galleries to support teaching; a lecture on Latin inscriptions; gallery tours of Rome and Reading & Writing Galleries to explain how to use new displays within teaching; workshop on the teaching resources created by the project. Sparked interest among the trainees in incorporating Latin inscriptions into their teaching + in bringing groups of school students to the museum. PGCE lecturers considered this to be useful addition to current training programme. Improved upon sessions in 2014, since gave the PGCE trainees on-site training, thanks to support from Warwick Impact Fund (covered travel expenses for the participants). Intend to continue this event for future years. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | PGCE training for secondary Classics teachers at KCL |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | 16th Feb 2015, training for PGCE trainees at KCL in 'Teaching with Latin Inscriptions' - 20 Trainee Teachers. By project RF Jane Masseglia. Discussed how to embed Latin inscriptions into teaching of Classics in schools. PGCE tutor found this was useful addition to current training being provided. Event enlarged for 2016, with plans for further PGCE training. Demonstrated how to use the teacher resources created by our project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | PGCE training workshop, Cambridge |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Workshop for 20 trainee teachers on PGCE course in Classics at Cambridge. Showing how to incorporate Latin inscriptions into their teaching + working with the teaching resources produced by our project. Trainees expressed interest in using such materials in their teaching. PGCE tutor found that this was a useful addition to the usual training programme, so that an extended version was later held in 2016, with plans to continue for the future. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | PGCE training workshop, Cambridge |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Workshop for 20 trainee teachers on PGCE course in Classics at Cambridge. Showing how to incorporate Latin inscriptions into their teaching + working with the teaching resources produced by our project. Trainees expressed interest in using such materials in their teaching. PGCE tutor found that this was a useful addition to the usual training programme, so that an extended version was later held in 2016, with plans to continue for the future. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Primary school workshop (Our Lady's Catholic Primary School, Cowley) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | AshLI primary school workshop led by Abigail Baker. Engaged primary children in Roman world via Latin inscriptions |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Primary school workshop (Summerfields, Oxford) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | AshLI workshop in local primary school led by Abigail Baker. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Primary school workshop, Appleton Primary Oxford |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | AshLI Primary school workshop, led by Abigail Baker. Introduced primary school children to Roman world via Latin inscriptions |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Primary school workshop, St Michael's CE Primary School, Oxford |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | AshLI Primary school workshop led by Abigail Baker. Introduced primary school children to Roman world via Latin inscriptions |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Primary school workshop, Windmill School Oxford |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | AshLI Primary school workshop led by Abigail Baker. Introduced primary school children to Roman world via Latin inscriptions |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Public Lecture (Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, London) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies AGM, London: 'Roman Families in the Ashmolean' - lecture recorded & video posted online |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Public lecture (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Study Day for Wyvern NADFAS |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Public lecture (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Festival of Archaeology lecture, Ashmolean Museum; audience included Sutton Summer School Sixth Formers from Warwick University widening participation summer school |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Public lecture (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Ashmolean Museum, British Science Week: public lecture, 'Making Objects Speak: Technology and Ancient Inscriptions' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Remembering the Romans, Ashmolean Museum Oxford |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | 22nd November 2015, 1500 visitors directly involved in day's activities, comprising: 'Learn to Read a Roman Tombstone', teaching session by project RF Jane Masseglia; 'Rose-tinted records? Reality & Aspiration in Roman memorials', gallery tours by project PI Alison Cooley; 'Hands-on History', handling session by project RF Hannah Cornwell; 'The Roman Art of Dying', lecture by project Co-I Paul Roberts; 'Make Your Mark!', craft activity - junior-school aged children creating their own Latin inscriptions (Neil Stevenson) (322 people taking part. Donations of £117); 'Meet the Romans', portrait tours (Helen Ackers); 'Roman Myths and Legends', story-telling (Tanya Bentham); 'What did the Romans Wear', activity (Tanya Bentham); 'How the Romans Made their Clothes' (Tanya Bentham). Professional Photographs were taken by IWPhotography, which can be used in future Ashmolean marketing (e.g. seasonal What's On guide). Ashmolean shop: Roman merchandise sold to value of £73 (compared with the previous week = £12, 15th November). I.e. 508% economic impact increase. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Research Paper at Colloquium |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Research paper ''Ashmolean Latin Inscriptions Project, Epigraphic Forgeries and Digital Epigraphy', delivered at colloquium, Falsi e falsari nell'epoca di internet. Convegno conclusivo PRIN 2015 False testimonianze. Copie, contraffazioni, manipolazioni e abusi del documento epigrafico antico. La Sapienza, Rome |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Rome Gallery, Teaching with i-pads session, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Rome Gallery, Teaching with i-pads session by project RF Jane Masseglia, 16th October 2015, Session using Picollage software on ipads, New College Swindon - 8 students. Led to further development of teaching with ipads in gallery. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | School Epigraphy Workshop (Edgbaston High) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | 15th Oct: School Epigraphy Workshop, Edgbaston High. Jane Masséglia, project postdoc RF |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | School Outreach Event, Ashmolean Museum |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | 16th October: New secondary-level 'Rome' session at Ashmolean: Jane Masséglia, project postdoc RF |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Sixth Form Study Day, Ashmolean Museum Oxford |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Sixth-form study day at the Ashmolean, led by Abigail Baker |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Sutton Summer School Ashmolean Trip, Oxford |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Warwick Sutton Summer School workshop, Ashmolean Museum. Some wp students subsequently applied to study Classics at Warwick |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Teachers Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Presentation at Macquarie Ancient History Teachers Conference |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | UNIQ Summer School, Latin Epigraphy Workshop (Edgbaston High) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | UNIQ Summer School - Latin Epigraphy Workshop by project RF Jane Masseglia, 3rd August 2015, 'A New Name for a New Life', Edgbaston High - 16 students. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Warwick Sutton Scholars Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Year 9 students presented their research posters which they had created during the Sutton workshops from January to April. This was the first time that many of them had encountered the Roman world. They chose one of the inscriptions in the Ashmolean Collection, carried out research, and produced a poster, working in small groups. The event was also designed to introduce HE to school students from WP backgrounds. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Warwick Sutton Scholars Workshop, Ashmolean Museum Oxford |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Warwick Sutton Scholars Trip to Ashmolean Museum: hands-on craft activities; gallery tour; object handling. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Warwick Sutton Scholars workshop, University of Warwick |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Warwick Sutton Scholars AshLI workshop, third session. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Warwick Sutton Scholars workshop, Warwick University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Warwick Sutton Scholars workshop: students from wp backgrounds introduced to Roman world via Latin inscriptions |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |