Tag: writing

  • Two hearts, one destiny

    ‘Speaking Stones’ by Carla Vetere The Civic Museum “Guido Sutermeister” in Legnano, in western Lombardy, houses a small treasure from the 1st century AD: a terracotta hollow figurine found during excavations in 2015 in a tomb in Pogliano Milanese. The statuette is approximately 6.5 inches tall, 3 inches long, and 2 inches wide. It is…

  • Seize the centuries! A unique testament to a poet in stone

    ‘Speaking Stones’ by Peter Stothard THIS IS THE FIRST ESSAY OF A NEW SECTION CALLED ‘SPEAKING STONES’, FOCUSED ON SINGLE ROMAN ARTEFACTS AND EPIGRAPHS Just occasionally there is an ancient Roman inscription that makes hardened scholars gasp. Many who write about the Roman past use the evidence of poetry but there is only one surviving…