Laughing Dolphins

The most exciting question of old times for me is how average people lived. Not the famous people who somehow influenced the rules of the world, but the simple, ordinary people who, with their silent, persistent work, built the world unnoticed. What they thought about the world, the age they lived in, how they saw each other and themselves. I like to search for such ‘clues’ in the past. That’s why this is one of my favorite tombstone in the Aquincum Museum, which depicts a mother and daughter. Women are almost invisible in history, with a few character exceptions. This tombstone, in turn, presents us two Roman women. Roman women who lived here in Aquincum, despite the official Latin language and Roman culture, they preserved the traditions of their ancestors. Observing these two women, the opposite of tradition and the new world is well seen: it is there, and yet it is not. They are obviously Romans, because the inscription is in Latin. The sce...

Lili & Gyula Palatinus (and Miss Margaret) The Laughing Dolphins Staff

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