A photo of a girl holding a piece of paper with letters copied from a stone carved wall behind her.
A photo of a girl holding a piece of paper with letters copied from a stone carved wall behind her.
A photo of a girl holding a piece of paper with letters copied from a stone carved wall behind her.
A girl copying on a piece of paper the letters engraved on a stone wall.
A group of people copying on pieces of paper the letters engraved on a stone wall.
A group of people copying on pieces of paper the letters engraved on a stone wall.
A photo of a girl holding a piece of paper with letters copied from a stone carved wall behind her.
A photo of two men sitting in front of a gate with some round grills on it.
A photo of a teacher talking to the students while they stand in front of some wall exhibition.

Rome Day Three: Rubbing and Seeing

May 30 2018

Photos by Lita Talarico

Following Mauro Zenaro’s talk on the origins of Latin letters we walked to the Museo dell’Ara Pacis for a creative dose of waxing and rubbing the words and letters inscribed on the tomb of Augustus. The walking tour continued to the Piazza Augusto Imperatore to see the Mussolini inscriptions across the street from the Tomb of Augusto, which the DUX wanted to demolish back in the 1930s.

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