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Or how despite the millennia are things that do not change

going to do for four years or so, I chose an elective in history called "Inscriptions in the Classical Age" . Who would have thought that I would learn more classic story of Rome in those classes (and in another subject taught by the same tutor on Roman coins) than for the purpose. Things like that make a teacher great.

The guy in question is called José Antonio Abasolo, professor of archeology at the University of Valladolid. From here a warning to prospective students of history at Valladolid: if you have option of taking a course with this man, do a blind eye (if you like the ancient world, of course) is hard, requires to be studied, but the rewards worthwhile. If you are making history because the race is easy, buscaos other parasites.

As I was saying, in that subject through the funerary inscriptions and other than for this purpose, believe it or learned much things about the daily lives of anonymous citizens. Things like what ailed them, waiting for death, they wanted their loved ones, which were concerned and even what they presumed. But we also learned about the process of creating these entries.

warn that all this is going to write from memory, and as I am in Segovia now I have the notes by hand, so there is probably the odd mistake, so ask you apologize to me. He has spent too much time that has continued to enter information into my head to retain so many details. At least I can not for sure.

seems
lie that so many people participate in something as simple a priori: a foundation stone carving (for the logs without concerns: a piece of stone usually cubic or parallelepiped shape, and cuboid so look in the dictionary of the RAE), top it off, enter your text, decorated and ready. For each step there was one or two hard workers, each with their jobs, well differentiated. That is, the planter then not hewn blocks of stone, and lapidary (the one that I enrolled) is not touched up and decorated their work. A good measure against unemployment, go. The salary was miserable, but I did for a living. Interestingly, so you can see how little things have changed, the toughest jobs were the lowest paid.

Continuing the theme, the business of funeral inscriptions was quite similar to what we are today: you order a headstone for your loved ones and indicate what you want to wear. And these Romans, very applied them did so. Moreover, and worth of shows for, yes, again, how little some things change, the workshops used to be samples, something like a standard model that had to add the name or, in more elaborate carving the this bust.

The head is carved post in this case with the effigies of the deceased. There are peculiar cases, like a couple of brothers who chose (or were chosen) a slab model for marriage, one of the two brothers was carved anew in women ... Androgyne, of course

If none of the models met the old-fashioned freak or the buyer could order a la carte registration. And even they could make something like completion of pending orders. That is, something so bizarre to us as order the stone before the recipient dies.

This brings us to our case, which names the item. Our thinking leads us to assign, by sheer inertia, the hardest and lowest paid to those who by their lack of ability or education can not access other better jobs. This in Rome, as a rule, was also well. Take for example this case:

The registration process was as follows, roughly. The client decides what to put, that is targeted in a perishable medium (papyrus, parchment or wax tablets, something like the iPad of yore), and later was marked with chalk on the ashlar grinding and prepared to host the registration character . The lapicida then carved the letters along the lines that define the characters.

a stone thrown in a landfill, dump or as we like to call it (basically, where they threw all the workshop material was not worth, a whole wealth of information, of course) was found the following inscription:

HIC IACET CORPUS DOOR NOMINANDI

mistranslated, hastily, comes to mean something like "Here lies the body of the boy named insert name here." What does this tell us? Well, the poor lapidary, who could not read or write, that left him literally written on the piece of stone, and instead leave a space for the name when they met and the addition, was given to the literal. And yes, he carved it, and convinced that their work was good, sure.

Who would you say to that boy, sir, or whatever, that his work would go down in posterity revealing more about him than they ever could have imagined ... Mundane details like this never cease to amaze me no.

Finally, as for picky point in my research about the existence of this inscription, I found three possible spellings: one, already discussed, the other with a slight variation ("hic pueri corpus nominandi IACET), the third more of the same ("hic corpus pueri nominandi IACET). Latin word made several, unfortunately, I have never come to fully understand let alone master. Apparently, this inscription was found at Hippo Regius, Hippo for us old Bône, now Annaba, in ancient Numidia, in what is now Algeria. It is dated in Christian times, but I can not be more specific. Should be around around 250 - 300, I think. But these are just guesses.