Roman Crossbow Brooches by Henry Boulton
Blog post by recent A-Level work placement Henry Boulton.
Blog post by recent A-Level work placement Henry Boulton.
During March and April 2022, we ran an online art psychotherapy group for adults who were under the care of Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust mental health recovery teams. I am an Art Psychotherapist and I ran the group with Jessica Goodman, Mental Health Nurse.
I decided to complete my experiential learning placement at the Corinium museum, to gain a better understanding of how exhibits are designed, arranged, and displayed. I also wanted to see for myself, how visitors engaged with the exhibits from an observational perspective.
Blog post by JLM Morton, Corinium Museum’s poet in residence.
An emperor pairing himself with a god on a coin (as mentioned in the first part of this blog) is not unusual, however, we find many examples of this – Gordian, again from the third century, puts himself at the feet of Jupiter on the reverse of one of his coins to show his piety towards the king of gods and reverence for religion, perhaps in hope that it would help him ride through the many civil wars of that century; Domitian from the late first century AD, portrays the goddess Fortune with a cornucopia on the reverse of one of his coins, perhaps to show the success of one of the many military campaigns during his reign and to show the prosperity of the empire (as demonstrated by the cornucopia).
Two thousand and sixty-six years ago, in 44 BC, on the 15th day of March, the life of Julius Caesar, immortalised in literature and popular culture from his own time to ours, was brought to an end.
I will not pretend that everybody loves coins. It’s true – not everyone will spend the majority of their visit to a museum peering through the glass at some tiny circular discs of copper, silver or gold, whose miniscule inscriptions are barely visible to the human eye from close up, let alone from behind the glass! However, don’t be too quick to dismiss these coins: in bypassing them on your trip around the museum, you may be missing out on a truly fascinating story.
Read our latest blog post by Creative Artist Annabel Brodersen, as we celebrate the harvest with, Ceres, goddess of agriculture!
Apparently, modern-day Britons are turning to their prehistoric ancestors when looking for a more sustainable burial. Read our latest blog post by Samantha Fryer Ward.
This blog post by Lorna Heatherington looks at the tombstone of Julia Casta, discovered at the site of The Querns, a Roman burial area within the immediate environs of Cirencester in or before 1721.