Rereading the “Neumagen School Relief”

Since its identification by H.I. Marrou in 1938 as the only “true” school scene depicted in Roman funerary art, the second-century CE “Neumagen School Relief,” found at the site of the ancient town of Noviomagus Treviorum and currently exhibited at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier, has been widely reproduced in specialist and non-specialist studies of ancient …