Rabat – On Wednesday, September 16th at the Italian Cultural Institute in Rabat there will be a conference with Emanuele Papi, Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Siena. The event, entitled “The marble statues of Roman Morocco”, will discuss the statues carved in Morocco at the time of King Juba II and Ptolemy (25 BC – 40 AD), to celebrate heroes and kings as gods. The marble was imported from Greece and the statues were probably transported from the workshops of Caesarea in Mauritania, the capital of the kingdom (now Cherchell in Algeria). The Roman Morocco (40- end III / V century CE) used marble statues to depict the gods, emperors, the most eminent personalities of the city and also to furnish homes. Each city had its own set of statues commissioned from local artists or imported from other centers of the Mediterranean, which expressed the will of self-representation of communities. All this tells an interesting story, so far little known about Ancient Morocco. (9colonne)
