{"id":21216,"date":"2021-01-23T13:17:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T12:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=21216"},"modified":"2021-02-04T18:14:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T17:14:07","slug":"stories-from-the-colosseum-epigraphy-lessons-the-lampadius-inscription","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/event\/stories-from-the-colosseum-epigraphy-lessons-the-lampadius-inscription\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories from the Colosseum. Epigraphy lessons: the Lampadius inscription"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hidden in plain sight: the \u201cLampadius inscription\u201d, currently at the second tier of the Colosseum, is the first of four epigraphic documents in the Flavian Amphitheater that we\u2019ll be reading together with <strong>Silvia Orlandi, Professor of Latin epigraphy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Joining us from Sapienza University of Rome, Professor Orlandi will help our viewers at home look beyond the <strong>letters inscribed into the travertine slab<\/strong>. We will learn how to interpret the small holes drilled into the stone at perfectly calibrated intervals and along precise lines; corresponding to the formulae of public commemorations, these holes were originally used to mount <strong>raised bronze letters<\/strong> meant to preserve <strong>the memory of an exceptional event<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Archaeological officials Elisa Cella and Federica Rinaldi (supervisor of the monument) will then lead us four centuries into the future: moving along the lines of the same architrave, we will see the inscription that commemorates the restoration of the Colosseum after the 443 AD earthquake, financed by the <em>praefectus Urbis<\/em> Lampadius, before coming to the monument\u2019s recently rediscovered inaugural inscription, dated to 80 AD.<\/p>\n<p>Starting on 25 January 2021, we\u2019ll talk about all this and much more. Tune in to <strong>our social media channels every Monday night at 21:00<\/strong> to discover the lesser known parts of the Colosseum, where \u201cHistory becomes word\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First epigraphy lesson with prof. Slivia Orlandi about the Lampadius inscription and the inaugural epigraph of the  Colosseum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":21098,"template":"","meta":[],"tags":[],"location_evento":[35],"tribe_events_cat":[222],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/21216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/21216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21726,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/21216\/revisions\/21726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21216"},{"taxonomy":"location_evento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location_evento?post=21216"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=21216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}