Roman tombs and the art of commemoration : Contextual approaches to funerary customs in the second century CE

1. Verfasser: Borg, Barbara , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Umfang/Format: xxviii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Inhaltsangabe:
  • In search of deceased senators
  • Senatorial tombs after the late Republic: Augustus and a new decorum
  • Senatorial tombs of the second century
  • Messages
  • Conclusion
  • Reviving tradition in Hadrianic Rome: From incineration to inhumation
  • Inhumation from the Republican to the Hadrianic period
  • Imperial burials
  • Conclusions
  • Family matters: The long life of Roman tombs
  • Élite burials
  • Sub-élite tombs
  • Conclusions
  • Straddling borderlines: Divine connotations in funerary commemoration
  • Portraits in divine costume
  • Temple tombs