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Your Wikipedia link is very useful since it clarifies that Damnatio memoriae refers to exclusion "from official accounts".





>Today's best known examples of damnatio memoriae from antiquity concern chiselling stone inscriptions or deliberately omitting certain information from them.

>The term is used in modern scholarship to cover a wide array of official and unofficial sanctions through which the physical remnants and memories of a deceased individual are destroyed.

Certainly not exclusively from official accounts. Not sure what your point here is?




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