Damnatio memoriae : une vraie perpétuité ? Starkly applied from the very first day after the demise of the prince and pursued by his successors, Domitian's damnatio memoriae was one of the most radical in its consequences. A considerable number of inscriptions were accordingly hammered away but the damnatio was even made fiercely to bear in some more unexpected areas, witness the instance of a scraped manuscript. To the silences and periphrastic twists and turns of the inscriptions raised after the death of the prince or the tampering of the representations as in the case of the Chancellery reliefs there correspond similar features in literature from Pliny to Tacitus and Suetonius. Even numismatics was affected by the phenomenon as instanc...