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Subject(s)

• Funeral rites and ceremonies—Rome [Browse]
• Burial—Rome [Browse]
• Tombs—Rome [Browse]
• Sepulchral monuments—Rome [Browse]
• Rome—History—Period of military anarchy, 235-284 [Browse]
• Rome—History—Severans, 193-235 [Browse]

Series

Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• 1. Introduction: the third century
• Challenges
• Present approach
• 2. Traditional cemeteries and tombs
• House and terraced tombs
• Tombs of the social and financial elite
• Conclusions
• 3. Innovation and new designs
• Freestanding monuments
• Cruciform, apsidal, and circular tombs
• 4. Underground tombs
• Family hypogea
• The Roman catacombs: a reassessment
• Christian hypogea
• Hypogea on imperial property
• Hypogea on private land
• Other collective hypogea
• 5. Long-term use and re-use
• Long-term use of elite mausolea
• Non-elite tombs
• Legal re-use and change of ownership
• Re-use and usurpation
• 6. Sarcophagi
• The deceased in formam deorum
• Mythological sarcophagi
• Entmythologisierung reconsidered
• Vita humana and status representation
• Happy days: Felicitas temporum
• Patrons
• 7. Sarcophagi in context
• Tomb contexts with sarcophagi as primary feature
• Tomb contexts with sarcophagi as secondary feature
• Invisible sarcophagi
• Displaying and viewing sarcophagi
• 8. Interior decoration
• Mausoleum Z ad catacumbas
• Mausoleum M in Vaticano
• Hypogeum of the Nasonii
• Lost tomb at Porta Capena
• Tomb of the Aurelii
• Nuclei of the Priscilla Catacomb
• Biblical scenes
• Loculus marking and decoration
• 9. Conclusions.

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ISBN

• 9780199672738 (hbk)
• 0199672733 (hbk)

OCLC

861973247

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