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II Rome, Museo Nuovo Capitolino. Tombstone of Q. Sulpicius Maximus, who distinguished<br />

himself at the Capitoline poetry contest (cf. Suet. Dom. 4.4) in A.D. 94 with<br />

the Greek poem here inscribed <strong>and</strong> died aged eleven. Shows how an open roll might<br />

be managed with one h<strong>and</strong>, leaving the other free for gesture. By a common convention<br />

the writing is incorrectly shown as running across the width of the roll,<br />

presumably to make it easier to read. For an example of the same convention in Greek<br />

vase-painting see CHCL I Plate la.<br />

Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008

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