Series | Antiquity Studies
Edited book | Epigraphic Falsification
Chapter | Il falsario Sententiosus
Il falsario Sententiosus
Abstract
An obviously fake inscription from a recently published collection helps unmasking another inscribed monument, whose genuineness was never doubted so far: a fortunate coincidence allows us to prove beyond reasonable doubt that both were indeed crafted by one and the same hand as part of a rather unique series of forgeries, perhaps drawing from a modern collection of Latin sententiae, captioning macabre imagery. Although both items were on the market in Rome in the early 1900s amidst a plethora of genuine inscriptions from recent excavations, it cannot be safely ruled out that they had been circulating for a long time before that.
Submitted: July 3, 2019 | Accepted: Sept. 10, 2019 | Published Dec. 16, 2019 | Language: it
Keywords Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum • Pseudo-antique palaeography • Antiquarian market in the early 1900s • Casa Museo dell’Antiquariato Ivan Bruschi • Christian forgeries
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