Crisis and ambition : tombs and burial customs in third-century CE Rome
| 1. Verfasser: |
Borg, Barbara.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xx, 308 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation
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| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Imperium Romanum Roma |
| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 2 Datensätze |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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
- Conclusions
- 4. Underground tombs
- Family hypogea
- The Roman catacombs: a reassessment
- Christian hypogea
- Hypogea on imperial property
- Hypogea on private land
- Other collective hypogea
- Conclusions
- 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
- Conclusions
- 6. Sarcophagi
- The deceased in formam deorum
- Mythological sarcophagi
- Entmythologisierung reconsidered
- Vita humana and status representation
- Happy days: Felicitas temporum
- Patrons
- Conclusions
- 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
- Conclusions
- 9. Conclusions.
