Inscriptions from MA.Glouc.HCM

Located in the Magnolia section of Gloucester, Hammond Castle Museum, once the home of John Hays Hammond, Jr., an electrical engineer born to wealth and further enriched by numerous inventions (he held more than 435 patents, including one for the guided missile), houses a remarkably eclectic collection of classical and European architecture. Hammond himself designed and built the castle between 1926 and 1930 with stonework and architectural elements collected by him personally from little known places in Europe, particularly Italy, Spain, and France. Among the antiquities built into the walls and variously displayed throughout the castle are some sixty Latin inscriptions and copies of inscriptions, mostly epitaphs and funerary altars, originating for the most part, it seems, from central Italy.

In 1996 Allen Ward of the University of Connecticut shared with USEP an invaluable but incomplete set of drawings, transcriptions, and a few photographs of the collection. These were supplemented and enhanced by the students enrolled in a Roman epigraphy seminar at Brown University in fall 2003, who examined much of the collection by autopsy and were able to confirm that some of the immured inscriptions are plaster copies, in some cases of originals known to exist elsewhere. The entire collection is in need of a systematic review and republication.

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