Less than a month remains before the “Roman Art from the Louvre” exhibit at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art heads back to France on Oct. 12.

Oklahoma City is the third and final stop on the exhibit’s American tour, which included museums in Indianapolis and Seattle. The exhibit is the largest ever for the Oklahoma City museum.

184 artifacts, including jewelry, mosaics, paintings, sarcophagi and massive sculptures weighing as much as 6000 pounds, are featured on two of the museum’s floors. Pieces from the collection date from early first century B.C. to the sixth century A.D.

Jennifer Klos, assistant curator at the OKCMOA, said the exhibition includes artifacts from across the world.

“It encompasses objects throughout the whole Roman Empire, not just Rome and Italy,” she said.

Klos said the museum was pleased with the attendance at the exhibit.

“The exhibit spans so many topics of art, history, archeology and anthropology,” she said. “We’ve had great success in bringing a wide range of new visitors.”

The guest book at the museum includes names of people visiting from as far as Alaska, England, El Salvador and Malaysia.

Bryan Scott, Oklahoma City native, said he came to the museum specifically for the Roman art.

“It’s the first time I’ve been here to the museum,” Scott said. “I think it’s a really cool exhibit.”

“Roman Art from the Louvre” features artifacts and elements from the four main Roman dynasties: the Julio-Claudians, the Antonines, the Severans and the family of Constantine. Different rooms of the exhibition examine various themes of Roman life, including religion, war, funerary practices, family and intellectual life.

Drawings of Roman civilization were provided by the Louvre to give visitors a better understanding of how specific artifacts fit into everyday Roman life.

Clay Dodson, philosophy senior, said the Roman art exhibit made the museum much better.

“I wasn’t very impressed with [the museum] when they didn’t have the Roman art,” Dodson said. “But I’m really interested in that stuff, so I thought this was awesome. My Latin professor said it was the best collection you could find in the U.S. besides the one that’s in New York right now, and I’ve seen the one in New York and thought it was pretty comparable.”

The exhibit also includes an audio guide narrated by OU professor J. Rufus Fears. Fears hosted a sold out “Lessons of the Roman Empire” lecture on Sept. 17.

Klos said there were around 150 people on the waiting list for Dr. Fears’ lecture.