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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Al Kowsky, post: 8011292, member: 97383&quot;]The <b>British Museum</b> has some interesting objects related to slavery in ancient Rome, pictured below are photos of a few of these.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1389797[/ATTACH] </p><p>This is a pottery flask of an African captive who was offered as a slave, Rome, 1st century AD. The <b>titulus </b>hanging around his neck identifies him as a slave.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1389798[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Inscribed plate, 4th century AD, found in Rome, 58 mm. This object was attached to a metal collar around the neck of a slave, not unlike a modern dog tag. The inscription reads: <i>Tene me ne fugia(m) et revoca me ad dom(i)num Viventium in ar(e)a Callisti&nbsp; </i>[Hold me, lest I flee, and return me to my master Viventius on the estate of Callistus]. </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1389801[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b>Marble funerary relief, Italy, circa 30-10 BC. The men depicted on this relief are Philonicus &amp; Demetrius, formerly enslaved men who are framed by the tools of their trade: carpenter tools &amp; tools for coining money.</b></p><p><b></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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